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

A separate bill would cover the cost of pre-K programs for all 4-year-olds in Louisiana.

Selections for middle and high school will be made Wednesday; lower school picks will be made Friday.

It begins at 11 a.m.; check here if you can't make it in person.

It starts about 4 p.m. on Friday; follow along here if you can't make it in person.

The school principal says documentation has been found for all but $1,600 in charges.

Comment cards arrayed at board meeting, but no one comes forward and meeting is adjourned without inviting public comment.

Former Miller-McCoy principal canceled a bus contract, then awarded it to her brother without authorization.

The meeting starts at 6 p.m.

It happened the day after Shaud Wilson was killed by a car as he ran across the street to his bus stop.

The nonprofit could be forced to sell its buildings to pay off its debts.

Our reporting has more urgency than ever.