The Board of Directors of ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC. have released their December 8 meeting agenda. Review it here.
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Board authorizes pre-kindergarten program, frets over budget crunch
Hopes to reinstate a pre-kindergarten program and lingering concerns over a potential spring budget crunch topped discussion at the monthly meeting of the Benjamin Mays Preparatory Academy board of directors, Nov. 29. Principal Shanda Gentry said only four of the school’s 44 kindergartners had previously attended school. Gentry is an advocate of early education, especially as […]
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Black Sabbath dawns — yep, your father’s Black Sabbath!
Reliable sources inform me that Black Sabbath, the inventors of heavy metal, will headline The Voodoo Experience music festival in 2012.
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Lafayette accorded national citation; board plots film, theater and television school
Lafayette Academy has been listed as a breakthrough school by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the school’s board announced at its monthly meeting, Nov. 30. Lafayette, along with nine other middle and high schools, demonstrated “significant and sustained” improvement among students who are affected by poverty and all of its associated issues, the […]
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Edison contract extended only through June, as board weighs alternatives to for-profit provider
Andrew H. Wilson Charter School’s contract with Edison Learning Systems has been extended only to the end of the current school year, leaving open the possibility that at their next meeting board members will vote to permanently sever the five-year relationship with the for-profit service provider. The half-year extension of a modified contract with Edison was […]
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New partnership to provide after-school tutoring for fourth-graders
Akili Academy has secured funding for a partnership with New Orleans Outreach, a local non-profit that provides after-school tutoring and mentoring. The development was hailed at the monthly meeting of school’s board of directors, Nov. 30, in the administration annex. The program will involve an initial 10 to 15 fourth-graders who will meet after school […]
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Grants sought until four-year enrollment eases budget crunch; influx of student transfers noted
Directors of the New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy gathered briefly on Nov. 29 for a monthly meeting focused mainly on funding and the school’s growing appeal. With a ninth-grade enrolled and plans afoot to add a grade a year until the academy is a four-year high school, NOMMA faces budget challenges. State and local […]
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Parking lots? An aquarium? Enviro groups question state bids for spending BP bucks
By Benjamin Leger, The Lens contributing writer The $1 billion fund set up by BP is supposed to pay for restoration of natural resources damaged by last year’s Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s history. But a coalition has come forward with a report concerned that without greater […]
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Board meeting cancelled
This afternoon Lagniappe Academies posted a notice on their website that stated: “Due to a medical emergency, this meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 14.”
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RSD offers assistance for student transfers as board relinquishes charter
Sojourner Truth Academy will close after the current school year due to low academic performance, the school’s board said during its monthly meeting, Nov. 29. Addressing a packed house that included teachers, students, parents and media, Board President Robert Burvant said a representative from the Recovery School District informed the board that it will recommend […]