ReNEW’s board of directors learned at its June meeting that two of the network’s three elementary schools will likely meet their internal school performance score targets. Chief Executive Officer Gary Robichaux said SciTech Academy and Reed Elementary are predicted to score 71 and 65, respectively.  Robichaux’s predicted score of 63 for Batiste Cultural Arts Academy […]

The board that runs Akili Academy announced that it expects a 49 percent increase in its budget over last year in its proposed 2012-2013 budget, effective July 1. The board will discuss the budget at an open hearing on Monday, June 25 at 6 p.m. at the Akili Academy Team Room. Crescent City Schools, the […]

Col. Bill Davis, New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy Commandant, announced at the board’s June 13 meeting that the school had not received word on when it might be able to move to the temporary location where it plans to hold classes next year. “No major changes from three weeks ago,” he said. The proposed […]

Akili Academy has released its 2012-2013 proposed budget. You can review it here, but please note there is neither a budget narrative nor a comparison provided in relation to last year’s budget.

KIPP schools will discuss the planned budgets for six schools for the 2012-2013 school year at the June 21 board meeting from 5:30 – 7 p.m. You can download the agenda here. Download the budget overview here.

These documents cover the 2011-2012 Mid-Year revisions here, the actual budgets as of the end of April here, and the DRAFT budget for 2012-2013 here.

School leaders at Success Preparatory Academy charter school are considering ceasing the use of ANet tests. The Achievement Network organization has provided testing services for students in order to see how they are expected to perform on state standardized tests. This year, 49 percent of fourth graders at Success Prep scored at or above basic […]

The first round of cuts has surfaced from the Algiers Charter School Association’s bid to improve student performance by terminating and moving around principals, and so far, it’s not only principals who’ve been targeted. At least one termination, at Edna Karr High School, is in violation of the Orleans Parish School Board’s contract with the […]

Review the agenda for the Langston Hughes board meeting here.

Review the agenda for Monday’s FirstLine Schools board meeting here.