With its third move in its five-year history, the charter school finally is moving into a permanent home. It’s one of 10 new or renovated schools that will be finished this calendar year, and even more are underway for 2016 and beyond.
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.
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Native son selected as superintendent by Orleans Parish School Board
Selection ends nearly three-year search for permanent leader of the district.
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School that requested transfer to OPSB is fighting for its academic life instead
Special-education concerns have put Lagniappe Academies’ charter in jeopardy.
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Finalists for Orleans Parish schools superintendent to meet public Wednesday
After several stops and starts, School Board may be close to finding permanent leader.
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Attorney General sides with RSD in fight with School Board over John McDonogh
State school board can ultimate decide who will get building after renovations are complete, opinion says.
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Lagniappe charter votes to return to general oversight of Orleans School Board
It’s the second charter to leave the Recovery School District out of the 36 that were eligible.
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Failing Miller-McCoy Academy closing in spring; RSD seeking new operator
State sets Dec. 31 deadline for charter organizations to express interest in new campus school was to get.
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Orleans Parish School Board narrows superintendent search to two finalists
The board also voted to sue the state-run Recovery School District over its efforts to reopen shuttered schools.
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Two-year search may be ending for new Orleans Parish schools superintendent
After two rounds of interviews in two weeks, three candidates to be considered by board tomorrow.
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School Board discusses suing RSD to prevent it from opening new schools
Board doesn’t think recovery district can reopen John McDonogh or Sarah T. Reed.