It’s getting harder for the school to pay for increased contributions to the state teachers’ pension system.
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Lycée budget reflects new fourth grade, expanded pre-K and off-site classrooms
Need-based, tuition-free seats in the school’s pre-K program are not yet filled to capacity.
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Getting in is just the beginning; College Prep looks for ways to make alumni successful
Discussion touches on starting a fund to help with the small, unexpected charges that can bedevil a college student.
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Strong test performance lofts military charter into ranks of city’s elite schools
Academy defies military-school stereotype by maintaining expulsion rate of zero.
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Thinking about college begins early at Lake Forest Elementary; budget hearing scheduled
Enrollment projected at 550 as the school transitions to new facility on Lake Forest Boulevard.
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Addition of sixth grade and efforts to recruit at-risk students dominate Lycée board meeting
Plans to use the Cabildo as the base of a six-week program on the French Quarter have been put on hold, as the building undergoes renovation.
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Lycée Français community squabbles anew, this time over adding out-of-sequence grades
A member acknowledges that the prior board yielded to cronyism in agreeing to the add the grades ahead of schedule.
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NOMMA budget hearing is tonight, just ahead of board meeting: public is welcome
The board of New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy will meet Tuesday, May 20 at 7 pm to consider its annual budget for the 2014-15 school year, just after its regular board meeting at 6pm. The meeting will take place in the school’s new facility at 425 O’Bannon St. Commandant Bill Davis cautioned that the […]
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Amid charges of ‘slander,’ Lycee community debates access to job applications
Despite chairman’s support for the idea, board members rejected the school leader’s suggestion that major hiring decisions be subject to their review.
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Voteless Lycee board meeting learns of Fete results and plans for expanding kindergarten
Attorney General has been asked for an opinion on whether job applications must be made public.