The increase comes after several years of severe tropical weather has caused damage in the city.
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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Audit: Teachers in New Orleans are less likely to be certified
Certified teachers are likely to be more effective teachers, state data shows.
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NOLA Public Schools reinstates indoor mask recommendation
The recommendation takes effect as most schools are winding down for the year.
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District cites Abramson Sci Academy for special education
Abramson officials deny the district’s assertions and requested a retraction.
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School Board hears more on enrollment decline
The analysis will help inform the district’s “right-sizing” plan which could include school closures as enrollment declines in the city.
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In apparent first, district moves to withhold charter school’s state funding over facility conditions
King Charter School leases a district-owned building.
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School Board committee advances more lenient charter renewal proposal
The new policies would help address years when pandemic shutdowns canceled state standardized testing.
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School cases rise again in final report
The final report comes a few weeks shy of the end of the 2021-22 school year.
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BESE falls one vote shy of passing graduation waiver
LEAP testing requirements were waived in 2020 and 2021. Some argued that current seniors deserve the same break.
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COVID cases more than double in NOLA Public Schools
More than one-third of the cases came from one high school.