Board holds retreat, looks for ways to gather data from the school.
Author Archives: Della Hasselle
Della Hasselle, a freelance journalist and producer, reports environmental and criminal justice stories for The Lens. A graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Hasselle lived in New York for 10 years. While up north, she produced and anchored news segments, wrote feature stories and reported breaking news for DNAinfo.com, a hyperlocal news site. Before that, she worked at the New York Daily News. She obtained her master
Enrollment means more money for Hynes
Increase in per-pupil funds means surplus for Lakeview charter.
Morris Jeff board touts score improvement
Leaders seek better process for approving school handbooks.
Lycée changes plans for ‘zoo school’ transportation
School has to ditch ‘neighborly’ plan for getting students back from zoo trip.
Lycée Français will not expand grades
Plans to add an eighth and ninth grades in future years are put on hold for financial reasons.
Lycée Français pre-K decision outrages parents
School’s board kills class for three-year-olds, then reinstates it.
State’s supply of drug for executing prisoners has expired, says attorney for death-row inmate
Louisiana State Penitentiary’s lethal-injection drug expired last month, a lawyer for a death-row inmate has concluded after reviewing documents provided by the state in an ongoing lawsuit. The Lens has been trying to pin down the Department of Corrections since February on the expiration date of the drug, and an attorney for the state has repeatedly said no record of the expiration date existed.
Building issues stymie Audubon charter
Both its upper and lower schools are in temporary buildings now, waiting for repairs to other sites.
John McDonogh may lose one of its principals
Enrollment shortfall means salary cuts of 20 percent also possible.
Easton getting ready for new exams
New tests fully aligned with Common Core standards