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Category: Audio

Audio: How prepared is New Orleans for stronger storms and extreme temperatures?

Check back every day this week for a new story in the series, "New Orleans: Ready or Not?"
by Tegan Wendland July 9, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019

Einstein students are being bused to school, but families say there are bumps in the road

Until last week, the charter group handed out public transit vouchers. The school district said that wasn’t good enough.
by Marta Jewson April 26, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019

Audio: Whiskey Island shows the progress and challenges of beach restoration projects

By this summer, the island will be 1,000 acres larger. But the state will have to periodically rebuild it in the coming years.
by Della Hasselle April 4, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019

Audio: WWNO and The Lens discuss state’s ideas to reshape coastal communities at risk of flooding

The state's LA SAFE planning process is looking at ways to help communities adapt as the land around them sinks and the Gulf of Mexico rises.
by Tegan Wendland February 16, 2018 Updated November 7, 2019

Audio: Post-Katrina population shift offers clues to the impending migration from Louisiana’s coast

Thousands of people may be forced to move inland in the coming years, according to the state.
by Tegan Wendland June 16, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Audio: Proposal to widen Industrial Canal revives distrust in Lower Ninth Ward

People have not forgotten the corps' role in the city's flooding after Hurricane Katrina.
by Tegan Wendland June 7, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Reclaiming native ground: Can Louisiana’s tribes restore their traditional diets as waters rise?

Native Americans are losing their ability to live off the land as it has crumbled into the Gulf of Mexico. Some of them are trying to figure out how to survive on what's left. A multimedia collaboration between the Food & Environment Reporting Network, Gravy, and The Lens.
by Barry Yeoman February 9, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Audio: ReNEW program takes extra steps to teach its most troubled students

Trained in counseling and special ed, the teachers know how to deal with kids in crisis.
by Jessica Williams July 3, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Audio: Louisiana teachers to be judged more based on students’ performance on tests

A researcher says Louisiana's system for measuring teacher effectiveness is one of the best in the country.
by Jessica Williams May 13, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Audio: Teachers prep for standardized tests to ensure they follow rules

An inside look at how teachers at Success Prep got ready.
by Jessica Williams May 12, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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