The state identified issues with the schools last year after monitoring them as part of a federal consent decree. They were placed on corrective action plans months ago. It’s not clear why the district waited until last week to respond.
New Beginnings voted to surrender its two charter schools at the end of this year after graduation problems at John F. Kennedy High School.
The civil district court judge also dismissed the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, leaving the Louisiana Department of Education and Kennedy’s charter group, New Beginnings.
The Gentilly Woods elementary school’s principal hinted that she’d discussed charter surrender with the superintendent.
Council of Chief State School Officers’ National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson gave district staff an impassioned speech Monday morning.
Plan includes selling or trading off seven vacant buildings the district doesn't need.
If the board doesn’t approve a tax “roll forward,” city schools stand to lose about $9 million, CFO says.
A former deputy superintendent says the audit is a good start, but the district needs to look at more than what is currently planned.
Position was created in the wake of Kennedy HS graduation scandal.
Calculation errors, sloppy record-keeping led to 10 schools being erroneously picked for special monitoring. Plaintiffs’ attorney says the details in the report are troubling and point to the state’s inability to oversee New Orleans’ decentralized system.
