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Author Archives: Jessica Rosgaard

Behind The Lens episode 64: 'It's a direct reaction to what was a big problem at one high school.'

by Jessica RosgaardJanuary 17, 2020January 23, 2020

NOLA Public Schools has adopts a new high school credit review program, and plans are moving ahead for the $675 million dollar hotel project at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Also – changing of the podcast guard.

Behind The Lens episode 63: 'There's going to be unsheltered homeless people until we dedicate the resources to house them permanently.'

by Jessica RosgaardJanuary 12, 2020January 17, 2020

Behind The Lens episode 62: 'My wish is that we start to view this for what it is, which is a civil rights issue.'

by Jessica RosgaardJanuary 4, 2020January 4, 2020

Behind The Lens episode 61: 'Even if a school is not performing well, parents generally don't want to see this overturn every year.'

by Jessica RosgaardDecember 22, 2019December 23, 2019

Behind The Lens episode 60: ‘I think a lot of people assumed that this was a fix for special education, and it wasn’t quite that’

by Jessica RosgaardDecember 13, 2019December 15, 2019

Behind The Lens episode 59: ‘He always maintained his innocence, and he always held out hope’

by Jessica RosgaardDecember 6, 2019December 15, 2019

Behind The Lens episode 58: ‘We ended up with a partial rollback’

by Jessica RosgaardNovember 22, 2019December 15, 2019

Behind The Lens episode 57: ‘It would be so detrimental to schools to lose $9.1 million in funding’

by Jessica RosgaardNovember 15, 2019December 15, 2019

Behind The Lens episode 56: ‘This is a rather tough round of assessments’

by Jessica RosgaardNovember 9, 2019December 15, 2019

Behind The Lens episode 55: ‘People are getting up at meetings to talk about how much they’re getting hit by this new assessment’

by Jessica RosgaardNovember 3, 2019December 15, 2019

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