Some schools offer counseling and specialized teaching for their most troubled students.
Trained in counseling and special ed, the teachers know how to deal with kids in crisis.
Ira Thomas and Nolan Marshall Jr. accuse one another of misdeeds involving school contracts.
Construction costs have remained steady.
More than a third is paid off in first year of 10-year, interest-free loan.
Tracking results over three years, students generally tend to do worse as they get older, study finds.
Former principal was moved into classroom after drop in overall school score.
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.
Superintendent White charges that the groups attacking him are more interested in politics than the education of children.
Teachers at some schools were assigned to the state pension system under Reed Elementary, where they didn’t work.