The district’s pledge to install filters in all schools has been delayed several times.
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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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Parent says Bricolage Academy’s new aftercare policies exclude special education students
The charter school’s board gave Bricolage’s CEO an April 15 deadline for a report on special education services. A lawyer says schools must include children with disabilities in after-school programs.
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Orleans school district continuing to look into Kennedy grade changes
The district previously found no evidence of wrongdoing. But officials have received new information prompting them to take another look.
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F to D grade changes at Kennedy High School are suspicious, former administrator says
Runell King says he discovered evidence that Kennedy employees improperly inflated students’ grades. He sent it to top administrators and was fired soon after. The CEO of the school’s charter network denies the allegations, saying the changes were made to correct a software error.
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Orleans school district wants to shift $10 million from facilities to academics, requiring change to state law
State law requires that money taken from a property tax and a portion of school sales taxes only be used for facility renovation and repair. Also, the district contemplates swapping properties with city housing authority.
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Week in Review: The final year in a closing school
Class Dismissed: The final year in a closing school On a Friday afternoon in January, a few parents and two ministers gathered at Medard Nelson Charter School at the corner of St. Bernard Avenue and Gentilly Boulevard hoping there was something they could do to keep the school open past May. They were meeting with […]
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Class Dismissed: The final year in a closing school
As teachers and students search for new jobs and schools, resources dwindle and test scores could too. Part two in a series on school closures in New Orleans.
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Singleton charter violated special education law again, school district says
The Orleans Parish school district has issued Singleton three warnings this school year.
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Four F-rated Orleans schools work on improvement plans
The Orleans Parish school district is working with the schools rather than closing them.
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Week in Review: Civil rights lawsuit over fake subpoenas, witness arrests allowed to go forward, judge rules
District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro Civil rights lawsuit over fake subpoenas, witness arrests allowed to go forward, judge rules A federal lawsuit against Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro and several of his prosecutors — alleging that they violated people’s civil rights through the use of fake subpoenas and unlawfully obtained arrest warrants against witnesses and crime victims […]