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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.

Three-campus deal will keep Cohen in place, give Booker T. Washington to KIPP

October 21, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
KIPP expected to finance a K-8 campus elsewhere on its own, freeing money to rebuild Cohen.

KIPP passes measure to take on debt for construction if RSD comes through with land

October 15, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

City agrees to release public database after Lens promises to protect private info

October 14, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Deal keeps secure any legally protected information accidentally provided by the city.

Live blog tonight: Schools chief visits West Bank for town hall meeeting

October 14, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

City makes fitful progress in repairing school-zone caution lights

October 13, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Drive by a school zone light at random in the city of New Orleans on a weekday and there’s about a 50 percent chance it works. And that’s an improvement. The number of broken lights has slowly dropped in three field surveys by The Lens, but the city hasn’t come close to repairing them all, as a city official promised in July.

Superintendent of Orleans Parish schools begins series of community meetings

October 12, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Parents and other community members invited tonight to 6 p.m. event at Audubon Charter School.

With new contract, state starts process of creating new standardized test for spring

October 7, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Department of Education picks longtime testing company for contract valued at $3.1 million.

New Orleans College Prep opening Head Start program, may grow into Hoffman elementary

October 6, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Parents won’t get first Common Core test results until November

September 29, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

School Board attorney takes issue with property opinion from charter’s lawyer

September 22, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Lycee Francais board and counsel were considering a plan to have a third party buy Priestly site.

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