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Author: Jessica Williams

About Jessica Williams
Jessica Williams stays on top of the city's loosely organized collection of public schools, with a special emphasis on charter schools. In 2011 she was recognized by the Press Club of New Orleans for her reporting on charter school transparency and governance. In 2012, she was part of a team that received a National Edward R. Murrow Award for their work following a New Orleans family's recovery after Hurricane Katrina. She graduated from Edna Karr Secondary School in Algiers, and she obtained her bachelor

With help of school counseling, family tackles mental disorders of three siblings

July 3, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Some schools offer counseling and specialized teaching for their most troubled students.

Audio: ReNEW program takes extra steps to teach its most troubled students

July 3, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Trained in counseling and special ed, the teachers know how to deal with kids in crisis.

Radio show erupts into argument between Orleans Parish School Board members

June 23, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Ira Thomas and Nolan Marshall Jr. accuse one another of misdeeds involving school contracts.

Recovery School District’s budget shrinks as it shifts to all-charter district

June 17, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Construction costs have remained steady.

Craig Charter paying off $705,000 King loan

June 11, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
More than a third is paid off in first year of 10-year, interest-free loan.

Cowen report: Younger children do better on state standardized tests this year

June 10, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Tracking results over three years, students generally tend to do worse as they get older, study finds.

Akili curriculum director to become principal

June 10, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Former principal was moved into classroom after drop in overall school score.

Recovery School District charters inching past historic top-performers in New Orleans

June 6, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Schools run by the Orleans Parish School Board have been the top performers on standardized tests. That continued this year, but several charters in the Recovery School District inched past them. The challenge: Replicating what's working.

Groups behind civil rights complaint call for resignation of state schools chief

June 5, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Superintendent White charges that the groups attacking him are more interested in politics than the education of children.

Auditor: ReNEW Schools may have broken state law governing teachers’ pensions

June 2, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Teachers at some schools were assigned to the state pension system under Reed Elementary, where they didn’t work.

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