The response from Benjamin E. Mays Preparatory Schools’ board members to a presentation of state standardized test scores at the June 4 monthly meeting can be summed up in two words: “What happened?” “It was shocking to me,” said member Jenny Hunter.  “I didn’t see it coming.” “We were doing what we needed to do,” […]

There was no public comment at Einstein Charter Inc.’s public budget hearing Tuesday. Two members of the board of directors were present, along with the school’s principal Shawn Toranto and business manager Doug Guidry.  Board members and staff sat from 5 p.m. to 5:50 p.m. to take public comment on the school’s preliminary budget, but […]

Einstein Charter Inc.’s board of directors discussed LEAP scores and a successful fundraiser at Tuesday’s meeting. The regular board meeting was held immediately following the annual budget hearing. An abbreviated agenda was set in order to make time for public comment regarding the budget, but no members of the public turned out for the hearing. […]

New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy is negotiating two leasing agreements with officials in Federal City. The school’s board discussed the potential arrangement, along with other matters, at its May meeting. NOMMA’s currently housed at Murray Henderson Elementary School on L.B. Landry Avenue. School leaders are in talks to eventually move to a new school […]

At its May meeting, the board that now runs McDonogh 42 Elementary Charter School ratified the termination of 45 of the closing charter’s employees, voting to extend employment through the summer months for only eight employees. The charter operator that oversees the school, the Treme Charter School Association, did not have its charter renewed for […]

Einstein Charter School’s preliminary 2012-13 operating budget of $4.4 million is within 1 percent of last year’s budget. The budget was available for public review this week at the school. Business manager Doug Guidry said the preliminary budget is based on an estimated school enrollment of 443, as determined by the Orleans Parish School Board. […]

A “culture of fear” among fellow teachers was alleged by a member of the Pierre Capdau faculty at the May 29 board meeting of the charter management organization that runs Capdau and three other schools. “Have you noticed that there are no teachers at these meetings?” Iesha Pearce asked the Capital One-New Beginnings board during […]

Revenues from Jazz Fest parking more than doubled this year, directors of Langston Hughes Academy learned at their May board meeting. The school made almost as much on the first weekend ($17,390) as it made on both weekends last year ($19,000), and the second weekend pulled in a hefty $27,893 for a grand total of […]

Initial results from standardized state tests look good, FirstLine Schools chief executive officer Jay Altman told the board at their May monthly meeting.  Altman said he expects John Dibert Community School to post some of the city’s biggest gains. He said he was pleased that  Langston Hughes Academy maintained the status quo. “I was relieved […]

There was no public, let alone public comment, at a two-hour public budget hearing Thursday to let interested parties comment on the proposed annual budgets for the four schools in the Capital One-New Beginnings Charter School Network. Like virtually all public bodies, charter schools are required to hold such a hearing before approving their budgets. […]