Morris Jeff’s proposed budget for 2012-13 anticipates a bigger school and correspondingly higher costs. With at least 60 additional students expected to enroll next fall, revenues are projected to jump by $500,000 to $3 million while expenses rise by $400,000, also to $3 million With the incoming pre-kindergarten class and expansion to fourth grade, next […]
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Creeping concrete: Is anyone paying attention at City Hall?
This isn’t a “before and after” story… not yet. It’s more of a “before and during” story. Uptown, on Nashville Avenue, there once stood a humble bungalow, quaint and pretty and respectful of the lot where it stood and the houses adjacent to it. As happens quite regularly to quaint and pretty houses in New […]
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School vouchers are distributed as expanded program kicks in
About 2,300 New Orleans public school students have been offered slots in private schools under the state’s voucher program, leaving about 5,500 spots still available at schools across the state, the Louisiana Department of Education announced today. The department unveiled the list of private schools slated to accept those students today, as well as other […]
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RSD says charter renewal seems likely, provided special-ed issues are overcome
Correction: The headline has been revised: the word renewal replaces extension. Another change is marked in the seventh paragraph. The board of Miller-McCoy Academy met Monday night with a representative of the Recovery School District to discuss the future of the school’s charter. Adam Hawf, the deputy superintendent of the state’s “Type 5” charters reviewed […]
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Enrollment strengthening for next year; Amato pleased by standardized test scores
The board devoted its May 17 monthly meeting to end of the year details and a look ahead to International High School’s resumption of classes in August. Board chairman Andrew Ward noted “a lot of good things happening as we ramp up to the end of the year.” One of them is recruitment, according to […]
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Continuing search for long-term campus frustrates board; budget in balance
The Lagniappe Academies board grew in number while continuing to search for a new home at their monthly meeting, May 16. The board started the meeting by unanimously agreeing to add to members to their ranks: Joanie Houston, a parent, and Dan Henderson, an education veteran who served nine years on the Baton Rouge Board […]
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Charter extension on track, RSD advises; Marcovitz training two new leaders
At their monthly meeting, May 16, the board of Collegiate Academies was advised what to expect in coming months as they apply for extension of their charter. “Currently you’re in very good standing financially. We’ve already done one special education visit in the spring, and it went very well. It would appear that you are […]
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Budget, building plans set for public review; slight deficit noted
The Morris Jeff board discussed board expansion, green space, and a year-end deficit at their monthly meeting, May 17. With the board one member short of the seven mandated by charter law, board chair Aesha Rasheed called for nominations at their April meeting. The board responded swiftly, nominating and unanimously approving two new members. The […]
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Cost jump with move, but budget is in balance; summer school begins June 4
Financial issues dominated the monthly meeting of the Crocker board, on May 19. Consultant Brendell Deamer, a certified public accountant, briefed members on the preliminary budget for the 2012-13 school year. The move to a new building and addition of a fourth-grade class bring the most significant cost increases, Deamer said. These include maintenance of […]
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School gets wind of $898G in FEMA funds; board honors Mme. Alford upon retirement
The May 17 board meeting at Ben Franklin High School began a half-hour earlier than usual to honor retiring French teacher Mme. Martine Alford. Jean-Claude Brunet, the French consul general in New Orleans, and cultural attaché Philippe Aldon made Alford a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques on behalf of the French government. Around 45 […]