New Orleans serves about 84% of 4-year-olds from low-income families. That leaves many New Orleans children entering kindergarten without necessary skills, and hundreds of parents who are not able to work as much as they want to, or at all, creating economic hardship.
A police search of the 14-year-old’s phone uncovered no proof of a threat, sparking outrage from local activists over the school’s response.
Incoming principal Kendall McManus-Thomas returns to Easton as a pathbreaker who grew up in pre-Katrina schools, experienced the disaster and all of its chaos as a displaced high school student, and went on to become the first Black man to head up Franklin High School.
First envisioned in 2008, the 3,700-seat stadium will open in Fall 2027 as Raising Cane’s 9th Ward Stadium at LCMC Health Field
