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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

Refusal to return charter schools to OPSB sign of distrust of locally elected boards

December 20, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Some charter leaders are wary of power shifts on an elected board. Others just don't like those in office now.

King charter won’t move to Orleans school board governance

December 11, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Item wasn't on agenda released to the public.

Live blog: Algiers charter board gets input on moving three schools to local oversight

December 10, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Tuesday's meeting starts at 6 p.m. Three of its schools are eligible. No schools have decided to move yet.

Services for Anthony Amato will be held Tuesday

December 9, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Services will be in Metairie for former Orleans Parish public schools chief.

Akili Academy’s principal steps down from her job

December 3, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Crescent City Schools CEO Kate Mehok will assume the role of interim principal

Former employee charged with stealing $31,000 from military academy

December 3, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
A school official said he found two checks that Darrell K. Sims wrote to a social organization he founded.

KIPP New Orleans Schools spent $120,000 on training in Las Vegas

November 26, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
About 185 of KIPP's 440 employees in New Orleans attended a national summit for KIPP staffers in Nevada. The trip cost substantially more than the $69,400 that Friends of King spent on a staff-wide retreat in Biloxi, Miss. But Kipp's nine schools all have money in the bank, while one of Friends of King's two schools posted a $1 million deficit.

Akili board votes to stay with Recovery School District

November 22, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Seventeen charter schools are eligible to switch to Orleans Parish School Board governance.

Friends of King Schools spent about $70,000 on all-staff retreat at Biloxi casino

November 20, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
All of the approximately 180 employees of the two-school charter organization were invited to the Beau Rivage in August. The charter organization covered their hotel rooms and meals. A week later, CEO Doris Roché-Hicks told staff at one school that their pay would be cut 2 percent. That move saved about as much as the retreat cost.

Board offers $10,000 finder’s fee in search for new Sylvanie Williams principal

November 18, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019
Founding principal Heidi Campbell to step down at the end of the school year.

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