Four charter high schools are now eligible to return to Orleans Parish School Board
Charter board leaders will decide in coming months whether to switch for 2016-17 school year.
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.
Live blog: New Orleans schools superintendent to hold forum in Algiers
New leaders to have sixth of seven parents meetings to hear concerns.
State releases 2015 report cards and school scores for most high schools
Schools with just ninth through 12th grade received letter grades.
Editor’s note: Firstline renames Dibert School with move to new Wheatley campus
Editor’s note: John Dibert relocates, renamed Phillis Wheatley Community School
State releases school-level information on student performance on PARCC tests
Live blog: School board member, superintendent holding forum in Gentilly
Town-hall-style event is part of series of meetings in each of seven school districts.
Live blog: Schools superintendent holds forum for parents in Eastern New Orleans
Henderson Lewis continues his listening tour of all seven city school districts.
Three-campus deal will keep Cohen in place, give Booker T. Washington to KIPP
KIPP expected to finance a K-8 campus elsewhere on its own, freeing money to rebuild Cohen.
