Author: Della Hasselle

About 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

School budget back in the black after enrollment slump and staff cuts.

Proposed survey would seek views on how best to increase parent involvement in the school.

Applicants will be questioned about volunteerism, budgeting and other issues the board deals with.

Prison officials agree to give information to federal judge, but they want to protect pharmacies involved.

The school also will hire a new Mandarin teacher.

Electives such as physical education, art and music are now worth a third of a course credit, not a full credit.

His attorneys argue that the state needs to disclose more about lethal-injection drugs.

It appears that Louisiana will use the same drug that was used in a prolonged execution in Ohio.

They continue to press their case against the state’s plans for lethal injection.

College students visiting school to help, and parents and teachers being familiarized with expectations.

Our reporting has more urgency than ever.