Uptown’s French-curriculum Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans faced a staff shortage of up to 35 percent of their teachers due to the virus and President's visa ban.
Some parents and educators don’t think the measures go far enough while others urged the state to allow local districts to set their own policies.
District and city officials said they will announce a plan next week.
Local school systems will have to adopt the minimum standards BESE approves Tuesday. It's unclear exactly how that will work in New Orleans schools.
The French government and local schools hope to get teachers here by January, after the president’s visa ban is set to expire.
A NOLA Public Schools survey found that only 49% of teachers felt safe to return as of the beginning of June. And COVID-19 infection rates have not improved since.
The trend in the district’s increased oversight comes one year after half the class of John F. Kennedy High School learned — after graduation — they had not been eligible for diplomas.
Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the five-year-old consent decree case say the point of oversight was to ensure better delivery of special education services. In spite of a ‘substantial compliance’ finding, they’re not confident New Orleans’ schools have achieved that.
Charter schools, which make up nearly all of the district, will release their own plans beginning next week, officials said.
State wants local officials to prepare to provide compensatory services for students affected by statewide school closures.
