The agenda for tomorrow’s meeting is reprinted below: New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy Board Meeting May 30¸ 2012 6:00 PM Meeting Agenda 1. Roll Call 2. Approval of minutes 3. Reports and Recommendations Finance – Budget Update 4. Old Business A. Building Contract Update 5. New Business A. By Law Updates: Administrative updates B. […]
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Smaller groups, parental involvement cited as factors in stronger student performance
By Mary Catherine Cassidy The McDonogh City Park Academy school board met May 15 to discuss the end of the school year and suggestions for improvements in 2012-13. With principal Christine Mitchell out of town, master teacher Sheila Hebert presented the school leader’s report. Projected enrollment for the 2012-2013 school year stands at 392, but […]
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Burnett discharged as principal; fight continues to boost scores, renew charter
Principal Dayphne Burnett lobbed a few criticisms at the board as it announced the end of her tenure Intercultural Charter. The board’s monthly meeting, May 24, also featured a half-hour presentation on the charter renewal process from Adam Hawf, the Recovery School District’s deputy superintendent of portfolios. The school seeks a three-year renewal of its […]
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Board drops expansion plan, cuts lower grades at Jeff start-up; LEAP scores rise
Parents applauded at the International School of Louisiana’s monthly directors’ meeting, May 23, when board president Andrew Yon reversed course and urged the board to drop plans to add another charter to its portfolio in the coming school year. Instead, the board should concentrate on solving problems at schools already under management, in particular the […]
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Enrollment spike for next year holds key to overcoming slight budget shortfall
Directors of New Orleans Charter Science and Math High met May 10 for their monthly board meeting to discuss plans for the upcoming 2012-2013 school year. A financial report indicated that cash flow has stabilized, and things are not as tight as they were in January and February, thanks in part to the flow of […]
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Proposed budget increases by modest 2%
The leadership of Audubon Charter School will hold a public hearing on its proposed 2012-13 budget Saturday at 11:30 a.m., 719 S. Carrollton Ave., seeking input from parents and community members. Next year’s budget, which goes into effect July 1, is 2 percent higher than the current year, rising from $6.72 million to $6.84 million. […]
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[UPDATE: Meeting has been canceled.] Board meeting agenda released
UPDATE: tomorrow’s McDonogh 42 board meeting has been canceled. === Review TCSA’s board meeting agenda here.
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Board attends to final financial details before handing the reins to FirstLine
Revenues from Jazz Fest parking more than doubled this year, directors of Langston Hughes Academy learned at their May board meeting. The school made almost as much on the first weekend ($17,390) as it made on both weekends last year ($19,000), and the second weekend pulled in a hefty $27,893 for a grand total of […]
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The news was sometimes buried, but the T-P helped us back on our feet
I saw the headline and thought about the reporters, photographers, editors and staffers at the Times-Picayune and what this means for them. I wondered how they felt reading about their fate in another publication, not their own. Then I began to think about the news we wouldn’t be reading in the refashioned Times-Picayune and what […]