Former assistant principal is the fourth leader the board has picked in the past year.
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.
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Asbestos clean-up at two schools; School had money when it deferred benefits
Two schools are undergoing asbestos abatement.
Posted inSchools
After school was closed for asbestos concerns, relocation site faced the same problem this week
District says possible contamination at alternate site was minor and has been fixed.
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Harney charter’s bank account stretched thin while board account sat flush
During the same time period, the school delayed its employees’ retirement benefit payments.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City Council’s investigation into power plant astroturfing campaign hasn’t started yet
That could delay the ruling in a lawsuit filed by opponents of the plant.
Posted inSchools
Harney charter school has fired its chief financial officer, board president says
Brent Washington Sr. is under a formal investigation for doing accounting work for Harney on the side.
Posted inInside the News Room
Week in Review: Public records and meeting access; charter school nepotism
Lens attorney Scott Sternberg explains a case in which a woman was sued for asking government officials for public records.
Posted inSchools
Ethics board rules Friends of King CEO Doris Hicks must lose her job for employing relatives
Doris Roché-Hicks employed her sister and son-in-law, and she signed checks to her daughter under a consulting contract.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Power plant opponents spar with city council over being kept out of public meetings on power plant
A judge will rule on whether the council violated the Open Meetings Law.
Posted inCharter Schools, Schools
Update on ‘Brady’s room’: Orleans Parish school district and charter school working on arrangements for high-needs student
Brady LaFleur may go to school on McDonogh 35’s campus as a Morris Jeff Community School student.