Schools with just ninth through 12th grade received letter grades.
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 inCharter Schools, Schools
Editor’s note: Firstline renames Dibert School with move to new Wheatley campus
John Dibert Community School moved into a new facility at the Phillis Wheatley campus in the fall of 2014. The charter school has been continuously overseen by charter management organization Firstline Schools, Inc. When it moved to its new location, Firstline renamed the school Phillis Wheatley Community School. For prior stories about Wheatley/Dibert please see […]
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Editor’s note: John Dibert relocates, renamed Phillis Wheatley Community School
In the fall of 2014 John Dibert Community School, operated by Firstline Schools Inc., moved to the Phillis Wheatley campus. The school is now called Phillis Wheatley Community School and is still operated by Firstline. See the Phillis Wheatley page for more information.
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State releases school-level information on student performance on PARCC tests
Scroll down to see test scores from just the public schools in Orleans Parish, by grade level. The state released today the first school-level scores from the new test intended to measure Common Core concepts. Fourteen schools out of 63 in New Orleans had a majority of third- through eighth- grade students earn acceptable scores on […]
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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.
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Live blog: Schools superintendent holds forum for parents in Eastern New Orleans
Henderson Lewis continues his listening tour of all seven city school districts.
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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.
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KIPP passes measure to take on debt for construction if RSD comes through with land
KIPP New Orleans Schools is prepared to take school construction into its own hands if the Recovery School District grants them desirable land.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City agrees to release public database after Lens promises to protect private info
Deal keeps secure any legally protected information accidentally provided by the city.
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Live blog tonight: Schools chief visits West Bank for town hall meeeting
Henderson Lewis will hold open forum tonight at 6 p.m. at Landry-Walker High School.