In light of layoffs due to massive budget cuts within Louisiana’s public-funded university systems, Louisiana State University faculty members are forming a union, falling in line with colleagues at other state universities.
By January, Priestly School of Architecture and Construction seniors Tamara Handy and Jason Lang will have attended classes at three campuses in four years, moving with the peripatetic New Orleans charter high school.
The state charter school law frees independently run public-school campuses from many laws. However, that doesn’t include the state’s open-meetings law.
After four years as a charter school separate from the city’s beleaguered system, Benjamin Franklin High School’s leaders on Thursday fell into compliance with a state law that requires the principal to be evaluated.
Some of the 185 employees enjoying a taxpayer-subsidized car -- plus city-paid gas and maintenance -- are likely to lose those privileges under the mayor's new policy.
