Federal prosecutors said bribes for Stacy Martin’s mother, then a school board member, went into her daughter’s account.
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 inLand Use, Schools
What’s left of Booker T. Washington High School has been taken off National Register of Historic Places
Most of the school was demolished, and the remaining auditorium is not significant enough on its own.
Posted inSchools
Former head of charter group led by school district employees may return to public employment
Nicolette London quit her job at the Orleans Parish school district to become CEO of ExCEED. Now she wants to return.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Schools
Two years later, no resolution in case of SciTech Academy employee charged with molesting a boy
Ronald Johnson left the school the day after the alleged incident. His case has been delayed 15 times.
Posted inSchools
Here’s how New Orleans elementary schools did on standardized tests this spring
Mixed results, like their counterparts throughout Louisiana.
Posted inSchools
Ahead of unification, Orleans school district formalizes warning system for charters
The first warning went to Alice Harte Charter School for initially denying admission to a student.
Posted inSchools
Charter school’s refusal to admit students lacking uniforms wasn’t its first violation
The state issued a warning to Sophie B. Wright two years ago for the same problem with homeless students.
Posted inSchools
Three months later, the state finally has records it sought about 9-year-old’s handcuffing at school
The state issued a formal warning to Friends of King Schools after it hadn’t gotten documents on policies and training.
Posted inSchools
City health department will spend the summer trying to make it safer for children to get to school
It will target 14 schools, using a $650,000 grant.
Posted inSchools
Charter school kept two homeless children out of class for a month because they didn’t have uniforms
The Louisiana Department of Education said Sophie B. Wright violated the terms of its charter.