Lawmaker says the group will aim to find ways to identify cases where defendants were convicted wrongfully as a result of problems in their cases beyond split decisions, such as weak evidence, misconduct or discrimination.
District officials say background checks are a “critical focus.”
Legislation would have wiped out millions of arrest and conviction records.
The furloughs, initiated in response to the coronavirus pandemic, affected thousands of city employees for a little over five months
The lawsuit alleges the nonprofit group that ran Coghill School owes the district nearly $1 million.
The suit was filed late last month following an April Convention Center board vote authorizing legal action against the RTA.
The superintendent also suggested six additional campuses to be considered in July.
The administrator of the program warned that although they would start accepting applications again, the city had already received far more applications than it could fund.
Roughly one-third of the district’s students are in summer programming.
In their annual report, watchdog group Court Watch NOLA called the practice "egregious."
