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.

Board members say such decisions are in the hands of the superintendent, not them.

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Surprise move comes as schools expected to lose money threaten to sue the state.

Officials at Mary D. Coghill and Fannie C. Williams voted this week to transfer from recovery district.

Schools would get more money for special-education students, less for gifted students.

Seven of their combined nine schools have improved enough to return to Orleans Parish School Board.

Four others in the 10-school network were eligible, but move only would apply to Renaissance High.

State required the network to hire a consultant to comply with corrective-action plan after cheating.

Our reporting has more urgency than ever.