The lone in-person interviewee for the school’s CEO position sent an email to board members late Monday about her decision.
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Marta Jewson covers education in New Orleans for The Lens. She began her reporting career covering charter schools for The Lens and helped found the hyperlocal news site Mid-City Messenger. Jewson returned to New Orleans in the fall of 2014 after covering education for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with majors in journalism and social welfare and a concentration in educational policy studies.
Jewson has covered New Orleans schools for 15 years through the nation's largest education reform experiment. She was a founding member of the outlet's Charter School Reporting Corps and was instrumental in holding schools accountable to sunshine laws during the rapid expansion of charter schools in the city.
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Mystery school could get closing Pride College Prep’s leftover charter school money
Board chairman Allen Square said an RSD official told him that a new school opening in the fall could use the projected $189,000.
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Lycée board votes to extend CEO job offer and approves three new board members
Six months after its last CEO resigned, Lycée will make an offer to a new permanent leader.
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ReNEW board receives $33 million budget, schedules June vote
Take over of Schaumburg Elementary means more revenue and more expense.
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Lycee CEO finalist Rabaté to parents, teachers: ‘I know this has been a painful year’
Veteran educator Mireille Rabaté has dual citizenship in the U.S. and France and has spent the last 30 years in education.
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Lycée charter committee recommends San Francisco’s Mireille Rabaté for next CEO
A dual citizen of the U.S. and France, Rabaté spent about 11 years teaching in France, Norway and the U.S. before moving into administration, where she has spent the last 18 years.
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Only one CEO candidate will make Lycée’s in-person interviews Thursday
Formally invited on Monday with only three days notice, Lysianne Essama, a French immersion principal who lives in Maryland, couldn’t make the meetings.
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ReNEW’s proposed budget expands as it takes over Schaumberg Elementary
The network’s revenue will increase from $27 million to about $33 million next year as a result of the takeover.
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Live blog: Lycée committee picks three board member applicants to recommend
Join reporter Marta Jewson as she live-blogs today’s noon meeting of Lycee’s nominating committee.
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ReNEW charter budget hearing set for Thursday
A public hearing on the $33 million budget will be held Thursday, May 9, at 5:30 p.m.