The Algiers Charter Schools Association board is poised to vote tomorrow on whether or not to recommend three schools return to Orleans Parish School Board control. Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy, Martin Behrman Elementary School and O. Perry Walker Senior High School are each eligible to leave the Recovery School District due to their students’ improved […]
Author Archives: Rebecca Catalanello
Rebecca Catalanello edits the Charter School Reporting Corps. A New Orleans native and graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School, Catalanello spent much of her 15-year newspaper career covering K-12 education. For nine years prior to joining The Lens, she worked at the St. Petersburg Times (now called the Tampa Bay Times), where she wrote about school boards, homeschoolers, crime, state politics and virtual education, among other things. She helped cover Hurricane Katrina for the Times in 2005 and, in subsequent years, wrote from her hometown about New Orleanians
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The Lens awarded $25,000 for charter school reporting project
Recognizing the important coverage of charter schools by The Lens, two local philanthropies have made another round of grants, this year totaling $25,000. The Greater New Orleans Foundation today awarded $10,000 in an IMPACT 2012 grant to The Lens’ Charter School Reporting Corps, a two-year-old effort aimed at covering the city’s 50-plus charter school boards. This […]
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Walker community pleads for Orleans school board oversight
Let us go and leave us alone. That was the message employees and parents from O. Perry Walker High delivered to the Algiers Charter School Association board members in a contentious meeting Thursday night that drew a passionate crowd of onlookers more than 50 strong. The 900-student school is facing an uncertain future on two fronts. The Louisiana Recovery School […]
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Walker community to ACSA board: Let us go and leave us alone
Let us go and leave us alone. That was the message employees and parents from O. Perry Walker High delivered to the Algiers Charter School Association board members in a contentious meeting Thursday night that drew a passionate crowd of onlookers more than 50 strong. The 900-student school is facing an uncertain future on two fronts. The Louisiana Recovery School […]
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Thomas-Reynolds named interim CEO after confusion over meeting date
Andrea Thomas-Reynolds Board members for New Orleans’ only all-male charter school this week voted to appoint an interim chief executive officer in a meeting that was initially publicized to be held three days later. Andrea Thomas-Reynolds, who has consulted with Miller-McCoy Academy for Mathematics and Business since September, will run the eastern New Orleans campus […]
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Loans to help fund NOMMA construction; board approves auditorium lease
The New Orleans Military/Maritime Academy on Thursday moved several steps closer to securing funding for the projected $14.1 million renovation and construction of a permanent facility in Algiers’ Federal City development. Gathered in a temporary site once intended to be a U.S. Navy hospital, seven members of the school’s board of directors voted unanimously to […]