The Lens wants to learn more about credit recovery at other New Orleans high schools. Did you experience any problems with credits when graduating? Did you use course recovery and credit remediation programs in high school?
Author Archives: 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.
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Week in Review: New Orleans becomes first major American city without traditional schools
New Orleans becomes first major American city without traditional schools On a typically hot July 1 in south Louisiana, when many students and educators are enjoying long holiday vacations, New Orleans has quietly become the first major American city without any traditional schools. The Orleans Parish school district has teetered on the edge of an […]
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State report: Kennedy HS misused credit recovery program, special education services were inadequate
State finds that students were allowed to use remediation software — intended for makeup work after failing a course — to take classes for the first time, appearing to corroborate allegations in a recently filed lawsuit.
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Kennedy High parent sues school over graduation problems
Lawyer says she’s pursuing class action on behalf of all 92 students who belatedly found out they were ineligible to graduate.
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New Orleans becomes first major American city without traditional schools
As McDonogh 35 Senior High School is taken over by a charter management organization, the city’s schools are now all charters.
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Week in Review: Orleans schools superintendent calls for criminal investigation into Kennedy High School
Louisiana’s four other potential abortion restrictions that were eclipsed by the ‘six-week ban’ and a New Orleans charter school forgot to administer the social studies state exam
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Orleans schools superintendent calls for criminal investigation into Kennedy High School, announces citywide audit of high school student records
“Due to the careless and reckless actions of the adults you trusted at JFK, you should be celebrating your senior graduation this month, but instead, you have been forced to question the certainty of your future,” Lewis said at Thursday’s OPSB meeting.
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Einstein charter network failed to give students required state social studies exam
No other schools in the state failed to “administer an entire assessment to an entire grade,” a state education official said. The exams will be counted as zeroes in Einstein’s state performance score.
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Cohen High prepares for move to Harney, now ‘swing-space’
Cohen will occupy the Central City campus for two to three years while a new high school is constructed at its current site.
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Orleans schools drop plans to install antimicrobial filters, focusing on lead
After nearly a year of delays due to low water pressure issues, the district is giving up on microbe-removing filters and focusing on lead removal.