District cases increased this week, but with fewer students in school buildings and citywide case numbers still low, they are still below the numbers that schools often reported during the school year.
The program has provided meals to thousands of New Orleans residents since it began last summer.
Lawmaker says the group will aim to find ways to identify cases where defendants were convicted wrongfully as a result of problems in their cases beyond split decisions, such as weak evidence, misconduct or discrimination.
District officials say background checks are a “critical focus.”
Legislation would have wiped out millions of arrest and conviction records.
The furloughs, initiated in response to the coronavirus pandemic, affected thousands of city employees for a little over five months
The lawsuit alleges the nonprofit group that ran Coghill School owes the district nearly $1 million.
The suit was filed late last month following an April Convention Center board vote authorizing legal action against the RTA.
The superintendent also suggested six additional campuses to be considered in July.
The administrator of the program warned that although they would start accepting applications again, the city had already received far more applications than it could fund.
