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.

The Orleans Parish School Board will interview the candidates on Thursday and Friday.

The New Orleans school district’s annual facility siting process is underway and six schools have applied for a new campus.

This week’s low numbers were due in large part to low testing, school breaks during the holiday.

Brown’s daughter is a candidate for NOLA Public Schools superintendent.

The district’s requirement will last two weeks longer than the city’s, which was lifted Thursday.

The board did not name any specific applicants.

The nonprofit dissolved the committee that is supposed to oversee the James M. Singleton Charter School.

Daily case counts and test positivity rates in the city have been dropping in recent weeks as well.

Extra character in federal awards-management system has been resolved

Matriculation rates indicate that if 100 students enrolled in kindergarten this year, 87 would remain in their cohort their senior year.

Our reporting has more urgency than ever.