Votes fail despite large community turnout for both charters. The district plans to run Coghill directly next year. Craig will be taken over by another charter organization.
While the vote was for a single contract, the debate broadened to how the Convention Center approached minority-business participation in general.
School CEO says Homer A. Plessy staff always promptly inform parents and authorities after an incident.
Monitors have found department in compliance with at least 11 of 18 major consent decree sections.
“The public records law means what it says — if the people want to review records of government spending or how decisions are made in positions of public trust those records have to be turned over in a timely fashion,” Scott Sternberg, McKay’s attorney, said.
A plan from three years ago to fix the increased traffic from the lane reduction on Convention Center Boulevard has gone nowhere.
In 2010, after struggling to find accommodations for her son, Kelly Fischer joined other New Orleans parents in a class-action suit. Some parents are still fighting similar battles.
Company wants to overturn recently passed resolution setting electric and gas rates for the city.
The nonprofits that run Joseph A. Craig Charter School and Mary D. Coghill Charter School are likely to lose their charters at the end of the year.
A public defender sued for crime camera location records after the city claimed they were too sensitive for public release.
