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Review the LFNO agenda for the board meeting on 3/12/12 here.

Lusher’s board of directors began their monthly meeting, March 3, with discussion of Governor Bobby Jindal’s education agenda and how the proposed legislation would affect Lusher. One Jindal proposal is to put more weight on SAT and ACT scores and other college preparation work to determine a high school’s School Performance Score (SPS). Board members […]

The E.P. Harney Spirit of Excellence school board held a quick and upbeat monthly meeting on March 5. In her CEO’s report, Eileen Williams updated the board on Harney happenings, including preparations for the upcoming LEAP/iLEAP tests. Teachers all received a binder of test-taking strategies to share with students and parents. Harney has already held […]

The school has money enough to see it through the end of the term but perhaps not enough to cover expenses as the schools closes down, the Sojourner Truth board learned at its monthly meeting, Feb. 28. Enrollment stood at 230 as of Feb. 1, a marked improvement on the last-reported count of 168 but […]

Hiring an ESL teacher for bilingual students and beefing up Spanish and math curricula are among ideas in a future-oriented blueprint for the Andrew H. Wilson Charter School. “We are anticipating a growing number of students who have English as a second language,” principal Logan Crowe told members of the Broadmoor Charter School Board, Wilson’s […]

Debate continued at the International School of Louisiana’s monthly board meeting, Feb. 29, over whether to sign a five-year lease on several modular buildings for use on the school’s Olivier and Camp Street campuses. The leases would cost roughly $340,000 per building. Some board members questioned enrollment projections presented by head of schools Sean Wilson […]

View the amended agenda for the March 8 board meeting here.

How to assimilate Esperanza Charter’s growing number of non-English-speaking students was a focus of Choice Foundation’s February board meeting. . Recently released data show that 46 percent of Esperanza students are of Hispanic descent. Principal Mary Guinn stressed that in many cases, not only is English a second langauge, but they hear little if any […]

View the details and agenda items for tomorrow’s board meeting below: NOTICE THE EINSTEIN GROUP, INC. Einstein Charter School BOARD MEETING Village De L’est Community Bldg Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 6:00 P.M. 5100 Cannes Street, NOLA 70129 The Board of Trustees of the Einstein Group, Inc. (“Einstein”) will meet on Tuesday, March 6, 2011, at […]