Three dozen charter schools face the decision to leave the Recovery School District if they want.
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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.
Two more charter boards stick with RSD, while two others think about it another month
Twenty school boards have a little over a month to decide whether they want to stay with the RSD or return to the auspices of the Orleans Parish School Board.
So far, no charter boards have returned their operations to Orleans school board
Five charter organizations have meetings this week and could take up the issue.
Four charter organizations want to reopen Sarah T. Reed High School
The school in eastern New Orleans is supposed to reopen in the 2016-17 school year.
BESE committee puts John McDonogh in the hands of the Recovery School District
Despite earlier cooperative effort, state school board members want RSD to control campus.
Live blog: BESE comes to New Orleans to discuss John Mac, charter transfers
State school board is the parent of the Recovery School District and meets in the city to give parents easier access.
Bizarre charter board meeting made history, then members thought better of it
New Beginnings board voted to put Lake Area high school under oversight of School Board. Then it didn’t.
Nelson Charter gets new principal who has plans to turn around the struggling school
Parents hope new hire brings stability after previous principal and seven of 20 teachers left since start of school.
36 RSD charter schools now eligible to return to local School Board control
Charter leaders have two months to decide whether to return to Orleans Parish School Board oversight.
Tax to help schools runs into static because RSD would get some money
Next month, New Orleans voters will decide whether to extend an expiring property tax that finances repairs to public school buildings, but the measure is facing resistance from unlikely people: some members of the Orleans Parish School Board. Indeed, three out of the seven members voted against even sending the question to voters. That’s because the measure takes millions of dollars now controlled by the School Board and puts them in the hands of the Recovery School District, even though the state-run district isn’t mentioned anywhere in the ballot proposition.