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New Beginnings CEO Kevin George said he believes the problems discovered at Kennedy are not unique to the school. The New Orleans school district has promised a citywide audit of high school records.
The charter school network has lost eight administrators since last spring, when widespread problems at Kennedy began to come to light.
District officials will present plans for long-term and surplus property and take input from the public at four meetings over the next two weeks.
The Louisiana Department of Education calls the problem a “selection error” and states that because eventually more schools than required were monitored it shouldn’t be a problem. Southern Poverty Law Center lawyers disagree.
The district’s three-year long project to install lead-removal filters at school drinking fountains is nearly complete. Charter schools will be in charge of replacing those filters. The district is now exploring kitchen filters.
The students’ lawyer, initially representing the class of 2019, believes transcript problems have affected all students.
The Gentilly Woods school must make up services to at least nine students.
The state granted the waivers due to ‘administrative error’ by the school’s staff. Students who receive the waivers may not be eligible for TOPS.
John F. Kennedy High School’s charter group voted to give up authority of the high school at the end of the school year.
After a major graduation scandal, the New Beginnings Schools Foundation is giving up its charters for Kennedy High and Capdau Charter, an elementary school. The KIPP network is interested in taking both over.
