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Author: Marta Jewson

About 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.

New Orleans school districts scrapped plans to test water for lead. The new plan: install filters.

August 22, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
A year ago, the two school districts that oversee schools in the city announced they were “proactively” coming up with a plan to test water supplies for lead. But they didn’t act. Now the plan is to install water filters. Meanwhile, kids are back in school.

School lights are flashing again, though some students have been in class for weeks

August 14, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Charters have different starting dates, but the city picks one day to turn on all the lights.

Principals file paperwork to convert Ben Franklin, Bethune elementary schools to charters

August 9, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
New Orleans could again be on its way to becoming the first city in the country with only charter schools.

Woman convicted in school board bribery scheme is now director of outreach at Collegiate Academies

August 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Federal prosecutors said bribes for Stacy Martin’s mother, then a school board member, went into her daughter’s account.

What’s left of Booker T. Washington High School has been taken off National Register of Historic Places

July 28, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Most of the school was demolished, and the remaining auditorium is not significant enough on its own.

Former head of charter group led by school district employees may return to public employment

July 19, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Nicolette London quit her job at the Orleans Parish school district to become CEO of ExCEED. Now she wants to return.

Two years later, no resolution in case of SciTech Academy employee charged with molesting a boy

July 18, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Ronald Johnson left the school the day after the alleged incident. His case has been delayed 15 times.

Here’s how New Orleans elementary schools did on standardized tests this spring

July 12, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Ahead of unification, Orleans school district formalizes warning system for charters

July 12, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
The first warning went to Alice Harte Charter School for initially denying admission to a student.

Charter school’s refusal to admit students lacking uniforms wasn’t its first violation

July 7, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
The state issued a warning to Sophie B. Wright two years ago for the same problem with homeless students.

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