Council members were supportive of broad aspects of the ordinance, but some remain unconvinced on certain restrictions.
Legislators appear open to changing ‘user-pay’ funding system for criminal justice.
The trend in the district’s increased oversight comes one year after half the class of John F. Kennedy High School learned — after graduation — they had not been eligible for diplomas.
City sales tax collections lag 2019, but are not as low as projected earlier in the crisis, according to Cantrell official.
Jail compliance director tells federal judge that all inmates housed near Christian Freeman, who died last month while positive for the virus, have since been tested and cleared.
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.
