Despite the recent encouraging data from the district, the 2021-2022 case count among staff and students is already higher than all of last school year’s, likely due in large part to the highly infectious delta variant.
Brandon Jackson is one of more than 1,500 people still incarcerated in Louisiana on non-unanimous verdicts, though the United States Supreme Court ruled split verdicts unconstitutional last year. Will he get a chance at freedom?
The move follows the Orleans Parish School Board’s recent project to remove names of Confederate figures and white supremacists from school buildings.
The suit was filed in 2017 on behalf of death row prisoners, claiming that Angola’s highly restrictive conditions violated their constitutional rights.
The request comes as part of a lawsuit the Dryades YMCA, which runs Singleton Charter School, filed against the school district over the summer.
If districts opt in, the policy would allow close contacts to remain in class without a quarantine. NOLA Public Schools district indicated they will not adopt the policy.
Officials are giving employees more time to report their vaccine status.
With FEMA cash aid limited to certain groups, grassroots organizations have mobilized to fill unmet needs.
Most cases are connected to K-8 schools.
The contract amount was increased from $500,000 approved earlier this year.
