The new Living Wage Ordinance for contractors would raise the minimum to $13.25 an hour next year and $15 in 2023. Some direct city employees earn far less, and the council can’t change that on its own.
If the superintendent’s recommendation stands, Singleton Charter School will close and scatter students across other city charter schools before school starts in the fall.
A proposed law would give "prospective pardons" to anyone cited for marijuana possession under city law.
Letters sent this month are an early step in winding down pandemic programs.
Several similar resolutions have been approved since 2006, but this new one adds new restrictions on donations from Entergy employees and extends the restrictions to council candidates who aren’t currently sitting council members.
This is the final weekly update the district will issue for the 2020-21 school year.
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
A district warning letter says that the school is owed more than $1M from its parent organization and ‘other programs.’
Advocates and council members say that next, they want to raise wages for city employees and eventually all workers in Orleans Parish.
About one-third of the city's public school students are in summer classes.
