Council of Chief State School Officers’ National Teacher of the Year Rodney Robinson gave district staff an impassioned speech Monday morning.
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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.
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Orleans school board approves facility plan
Plan includes selling or trading off seven vacant buildings the district doesn’t need.
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NOLA Public Schools asks board for more in property taxes next year
If the board doesn’t approve a tax “roll forward,” city schools stand to lose about $9 million, CFO says.
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Citywide school audit will cover about 5 percent of high school student files
A former deputy superintendent says the audit is a good start, but the district needs to look at more than what is currently planned.
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School district’s new high school accountability director starts work at Kennedy
Position was created in the wake of Kennedy HS graduation scandal.
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Court-appointed special education monitors detail how the state picked the wrong New Orleans schools for federal consent decree scrutiny
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.
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Newly hired Kennedy HS Principal out six weeks into school year
John F. Kennedy High School’s new principal Harold Clay left the Gentilly high school less than two months into the school year.
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NOLA schools chief: Initial Kennedy HS investigation ‘inconclusive,’ though later findings ‘a different story’
The district’s long-awaited report on the scandal that led to half the school’s senior class being unable to graduate on time is five pages long and light on details.
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Law firm hired to investigate Kennedy HS quickly ruled initial grade changing allegations untrue
It’s unclear how Adams and Reese attorneys reached the conclusion. And one official from Kennedy’s charter board suggested that opinions have since changed.
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KIPP approaching limit on how many students a charter school operator can enroll
The three top operators had nearly 30 percent of OPSB students last year. And KIPP, the largest, is expanding.