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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Live blog: Lycée to conclude second round of board member interviews
A retired school administrator, an AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust officer, and an ExxonMobil engineer are the last three expected to interview during the 5:30 p.m. meeting.
Live blog: Lycée committee interviews three more in effort to fill open board seats
Two committees are racing to make a May 13 deadline to recommend board member and CEO prospects to the full board.
Three Lycée CEO candidates have withdrawn their applications
Committee to decide today whether to interview one or two people on Thursday.
Mays projects pool of red ink as it folds; records forwarded to families, new teachers
McDonogh 42 taking campus but only temporarily. Principal Gentry said families feel they're being "robbed of a neighborhood school."
New Beginnings must find three top school leaders — and quick
The network wants to hire two principals and one assistant principal by July 1.
Administrator at French school in San Francisco to interview for Lycée Français CEO
A search committee also plans to conduct initial interviews with two more candidates.
