KIPP schools will discuss the planned budgets for six schools for the 2012-2013 school year at the June 21 board meeting from 5:30 – 7 p.m. You can download the agenda here. Download the budget overview here.
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School Board to consider lawsuit, single enrollment application
The Orleans Parish School Board could move as soon as Tuesday toward suing the state over its private-school voucher program. The board is also expected to announce whether it plans to adopt and manage the Recovery School District’s OneApp process, which is meant to streamline student enrollment applications. Board members tentatively approved two resolutions Thursday […]
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Choice School budget documents
These documents cover the 2011-2012 Mid-Year revisions here, the actual budgets as of the end of April here, and the DRAFT budget for 2012-2013 here.
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Success Prep considers dropping Achievement Network evaluations
School leaders at Success Preparatory Academy charter school are considering ceasing the use of ANet tests. The Achievement Network organization has provided testing services for students in order to see how they are expected to perform on state standardized tests. This year, 49 percent of fourth graders at Success Prep scored at or above basic […]
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School Board concerned over firings in Algiers Charter Schools
The first round of cuts has surfaced from the Algiers Charter School Association’s bid to improve student performance by terminating and moving around principals, and so far, it’s not only principals who’ve been targeted. At least one termination, at Edna Karr High School, is in violation of the Orleans Parish School Board’s contract with the […]
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Orleans Parish School Board raises concerns over terminated employees in Algiers Charter Schools system
The first round of cuts has surfaced from the Algiers Charter School Association’s bid to improve student performance by terminating and moving around principals, and so far, it’s not only principals who’ve been targeted. At least one termination, at Edna Karr High School, is in violation of the Orleans Parish School Board’s contract with the […]
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New Beginnings chief operating officer takes state education job
An executive staffer with one of New Orleans’ largest charter school networks has accepted a position with the Louisiana Department of Education. Stephen Osborn, former chief operating officer of the Capital One-New Beginnings Charter School Network, left the organization in mid-May to become assistant superintendent of student programs in the state education department. Osborn is […]
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Board meeting agenda released
Review the agenda for the Langston Hughes board meeting here.
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Board meeting agenda released
Review the agenda for Monday’s FirstLine Schools board meeting here.
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BESE Member Kira Orange Jones may need to relinquish post
Board of Elementary and Secondary Education member Kira Orange Jones, who represents New Orleans, may need to give up her state board post, according to a draft advisory opinion released this week by the Louisiana Ethics Board. The proposed opinion, which the ethics board will consider in July, says Jones isn’t allowed to work as […]