Annual high school graduation rate data delayed by COVID-19
Certifying graduation data can require school officials to enter buildings and find records, a challenge during the COVID-19 school closure.
Category: News
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City predicts at least $137M revenue shortfall from coronavirus closures
No decisions yet on worker furloughs, layoffs.
Studies show link between pollution and COVID-19 mortality
Following a Harvard study showing a correlation between COVID-19 mortality and pollution, the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic shows the link in Louisiana's most polluted parishes.
Some New Orleans charter schools receive Payroll Protection loans, others wait to hear
The city’s two largest charter groups were too big to qualify for the program.
Official in charge of jail says he thinks it’s in shape for Sheriff Gusman to retake control
Compliance director says jail is in ‘100 percent substantial compliance' with consent decree.
Researchers say COVID-19 school closures could further summer learning loss
Several states, included Louisiana, have shuttered schools until the end of the academic year, leaving some students out of classrooms for five months or more.
New Orleans eviction moratorium extended to end of Governor’s stay at home order
The moratorium was extended from May 4 to at least May 18.
Mayor Cantrell to ask to borrow $100 million to cover anticipated budget gap from coronavirus crisis
Council members say few details yet available on how the debt would be repaid.
New Orleans Police Department to end ‘informational’ checkpoints
The checkpoints, which were scheduled to go to the end of the city's stay-at-home order, have been criticized by civil rights groups.
‘It’s a war’: New Orleans jail struggles to manage COVID-19 outbreak as it implements mass testing
The jail's compliance director speaks with The Lens about his decision to expand inmate testing and the challenges of keeping a deadly infection in check in a confined environment.
