Honor student jailed, barred from graduation after unsubstantiated social media threat allegation
A police search of the 14-year-old’s phone uncovered no proof of a threat, sparking outrage from local activists over the school’s response.
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Reporting on education in New Orleans and across Louisiana. This category explores how policies, leadership, and community voices shape the experiences of students, teachers, and families—covering everything from classroom challenges to school reforms and success stories.
A New Orleans Katrina kid takes the head office at Warren Easton
Incoming principal Kendall McManus-Thomas returns to Easton as a pathbreaker who grew up in pre-Katrina schools, experienced the disaster and all of its chaos as a displaced high school student, and went on to become the first Black man to head up Franklin High School.
New student-loan rules will heavily affect women seeking higher education
Advocates warn that the changes, part of the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," will deepen existing racial, gender and class inequities in college access.
The fields have a stadium now
The NAACP should help top Black student athletes forgo SEC money and honor the NAACP voting-rights boycott — without having to take a back seat.
Long-awaited 9th Ward Stadium breaks ground behind G.W. Carver High
First envisioned in 2008, the 3,700-seat stadium will open in Fall 2027 as Raising Cane’s 9th Ward Stadium at LCMC Health Field
They studied nearly 14,000 people to see how eviction rates are linked to gun violence
Since the 1990's, researchers have connected poverty to gun violence. A recent study shows how housing instability relates to shootings in Chicago — important findings for New Orleans, where historically, the eviction rate is double the national average.
Learning to live inside freedom, 30 years after death row
Wrongfully sentenced to death at 16, Shareef Cousin survived a decade behind bars before being exonerated and released. Three decades later, he is determined to find his own sense of freedom, through a cross-country journey with his son.
Why Louisiana parents stand behind school vaccine protections
Though Louisiana legislators again introduced the "Medical Freedom Act," which prohibits vaccine requirements, the version that made it through the Louisiana House was amended so that it did not apply to schools or daycares. There is widespread bipartisan support for school vaccine protocols - and here's why, says the writer, the co-director of Louisiana Families for Vaccines.
Not able to walk
After Warren Easton barred an honors student from participating in her graduation, advocates are calling for schools to stop withholding graduation ceremonies from students as a form of punishment.
Post-Katrina instability connection to jailbreak is ‘to easy’
As a former teacher, it’s easy for me to connect those involved with last year’s jailbreak with their past, as students who went through the storm, were displaced, and returned to schools in tumult.
