Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the five-year-old consent decree case say the point of oversight was to ensure better delivery of special education services. In spite of a ‘substantial compliance’ finding, they’re not confident New Orleans’ schools have achieved that.
Ordinance requires annual reporting, inflation adjustment provision in multiyear contracts.
Group plans to spend more than $200,000 to bail dozens of people out of New Orleans jail.
Charter schools, which make up nearly all of the district, will release their own plans beginning next week, officials said.
Cantrell recently urged residents to text about a city commission, but the texts are not going to the city government.
State wants local officials to prepare to provide compensatory services for students affected by statewide school closures.
Christian Freeman died a week after the Sheriff’s Office said there were no known infections at the jail.
In first day of eviction hearings at First City Court after three-month suspension, judge urges landlords to give their tenants some extra time.
Slave owner John McDonogh endowed New Orleans’ schools and many buildings are still named after him.
In a double-win for reproductive rights advocates, the court found that abortion providers do have the legal standing to sue over state laws, on behalf of their patients' constitutional right to an abortion.
