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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.

Young charter school, Bricolage, to get John McDonogh campus on Esplanade

April 22, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Decision means the site returns to control of the Orleans Parish School Board.

Growing charter schools join in the hunt for long-term or permanent campuses

April 22, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
School shuffle has students and parents on the move across the city.

Change to Open Meetings Law catches at least two charter boards off guard

April 13, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Law passed last year says public bodies can't count weekends in providing 24-hour notice to public.

Two city charter schools engaging with teachers unions for bargaining

April 13, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Morris Jeff charter school again approves teachers union for collective bargaining

April 7, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
The faculty will now be associated with the United Teachers of New Orleans.

Lagniappe Academies board turns daily control over to teachers as shutdown begins

April 6, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

Another school leader at Lagniappe Academies leaves in wake of critical report

April 2, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

With just months left, staff seeks resignation of Lagniappe interim principal

March 31, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
Temporary leader was part of the problem that got school closed, teachers say.

Principals discuss study that found charters tried to exclude some students

March 26, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019
New report shows school leaders admitted to screening students to get the best.

Two schools lose charters, but fates of their students are starkly different

March 25, 2015 Updated November 7, 2019

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