ARISE charter school to purchase its own bus fleet
The used buses could cost between $15,000 and $25,000 including maintenance and bus driver salaries, but officials predict savings of $1.86 million over 20 years.
Author: Marta Jewson
- About Marta Jewson
- 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.
Einstein plans 5 p.m. public hearing tonight on $8.1 million budget plan
The spending plan nearly doubles, reflecting Einstein's takeover of Intercultural Charter School.
New Beginnings ends meeting when asked to discuss job performance in public
The committee meeting, unlike most, was packed with about 25 teachers, parents and other network staff.
Rabaté declines Lycée CEO job, calling it ‘one of the most difficult decisions’ of her life
The lone in-person interviewee for the school’s CEO position sent an email to board members late Monday about her decision.
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.
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.
ReNEW board receives $33 million budget, schedules June vote
Take over of Schaumburg Elementary means more revenue and more expense.
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.
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.
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.
