This is the final weekly update the district will issue for the 2020-21 school year.
Category: News
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City workers from Department of Public Works initiate strike
The strike comes a week after the City Council advanced a proposal to mandate a minimum $15 an hour wage for city contractors, but not for direct city employees
Posted inSchools
NOLA school district: Dryades YMCA owes hundreds of thousands to school it runs
A district warning letter says that the school is owed more than $1M from its parent organization and ‘other programs.’
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Mandated $15 minimum wage for city contractors speeds toward passage
Advocates and council members say that next, they want to raise wages for city employees and eventually all workers in Orleans Parish.
Posted inCoronavirus
Just three COVID-19 cases in public schools, as summer school winds down
About one-third of the city’s public school students are in summer classes.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Prosecutors failed to report data on arrests of victims and witnesses, despite requirement in state law
Two years after the legislature passed a law requiring DA’s offices to submit annual data on the use of material witness warrants, the reports only started coming in last week.
Posted inCriminal Justice
‘Tantamount to torture’: Complaint alleges inhumane conditions, overuse of solitary confinement at Pine Prairie immigrant detention center
GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Council hears details on funding plan for Entergy substation at Sewerage and Water Board plant
The $34 million upfront investment from Entergy will cost more than $85 million to pay back.
Posted inSchools
Lycée Français CEO, COO to depart amid complaints, investigation
The school’s governing board has hired a consultant to investigate a number of allegations made by its former HR director in a lengthy letter.
Posted inNews
New Orleans City Attorney dismisses nearly 400,000 old cases in Municipal and Traffic Court
The dismissals reduce the court’s case load by more than 50 percent.