LDH official encourages back-to-school covid testing after holidays amid omicron surge
Public health experts are highly concerned about omicron spread over the holiday season.
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.
Dr. King Charter School earns three-year renewal
The Orleans Parish School Board also approved one high school’s request to expand to eighth grade.
NOLA Public Schools students 5 and up must be vaccinated by Feb. 1
Cantrell administration to extend proof-of-vaccination requirement for restaurants to include anyone over the age of 5.
Orleans Parish School Board continues search for a new superintendent
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School awaits Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s charter renewal recommendation to come Thursday.
Cases edge up, quarantines nearly triple in K-12 city schools; Tulane gives undergrads remote option to close out semester
Tulane University and Loyola University are also seeing a rise in cases in recent weeks.
Audubon Gentilly used wrong background checks, district alleges
School conducted background checks, but it used the wrong process, according to a warning letter.
Lusher creates formal renaming committee that will meet publicly
A previous ‘renaming study group’ drew criticism for meeting privately to narrow a list of new school name suggestions.
After Lusher renaming group met in private, board poised to appoint official committee
The board’s previous ‘renaming study group’ met privately to review name suggestions, drawing criticism from the school community.
Most city schools saw declining academic performance during pandemic, state officials say
Three-quarters of New Orleans schools, and 70% of schools statewide, performed worse than in 2019, according to "simulated scores" released by the state.
COVID-19 cases steady in schools as state lawmakers reject requiring COVID-19 vaccine for Louisiana students
Gov. John Bel Edwards is likely to override their 13-2 vote rejecting adding the shot to the list.
