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Author: Rebecca Catalanello

About 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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January 2, 2013 Updated November 7, 2019

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December 13, 2012 Updated December 26, 2023

Walker community pleads for Orleans school board oversight

December 7, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Walker community to ACSA board: Let us go and leave us alone

December 7, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Thomas-Reynolds named interim CEO after confusion over meeting date

December 6, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

Loans to help fund NOMMA construction; board approves auditorium lease

October 13, 2012 Updated November 7, 2019

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