With 95 percent of the school’s first graduating class accepted by a four-year college, Sci Academy  is seeing increased interest among prospective ninth-grade enrollees, the school’ board of directors learned at its April board meeting. As of April 1, 377 current eighth-graders listed Sci Academy on their high school applications, a 14 percent rise from […]

As it seeks extension and/or renewal of its type-5 charter, ARISE Academy has received a glowing initial assessment report from the Recovery School District’s Office of School Performance, ARISE board members learned at their monthly meeting, April 18. Present at the meeting, RSD’s deputy superintendent of portfolios Adam Hawf announced that his office finds Arise […]

The Warren Easton Board of Directors granted requests for funding from several groups at their monthly meeting, April 18. The board unanimously approved the dance team’s request for $3,000 to cover travel expenses to nationals in Florida.  The team won the state competition and will compete in Orlando at the end of June. The Parent […]

The April 23 board meeting of the Hynes Charter School Corporation has been released. The meeting is at 5 p.m.  Hynes Charter School Corporation Board Meeting Monday, April 23, 2012 5:00 p.m. Edward Hynes Charter School 990 Harrison Ave. New Orleans, LA  70124 (in the library) Agenda Call to OrderRoll CallApproval of AgendaApproval of Minutes Standing […]

The New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy Board of Directors approved the school’s budget for next year on Thursday. The school expects to get $2.4 million in the 2012-13 school year, with about a million each coming from state and local per-student funding, and an additional $240,000 from a federal grant. It expects to spend […]

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Directors of Milestone SABIS New Orleans Academy are studying two properties owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and hope to decide in the next few weeks which one to lease, board vice president Lorin Crenshaw told board members at their monthly meeting, April 16. Members also interviewed two candidates for an open board […]

By Marta Jewson, The Lens charter school reporter | A federal i3 grant to expand enrollment was up for discussion at the James Singleton Charter School directors meeting, April 17. The i3 program describes itself as designed “to turn around persistently low-performing schools through the development of new public charter schools.”  The grant would provide […]

Directors of the Andrew H. Wilson Charter School will meet with the school’s parent-teacher organization at an open assembly in May, and parents are encouraged to fill out an evaluation form being circulated by the school. The PTO meeting was one of several end-of-the-school-year topics discussed at the board’s monthly meeting, April 17. Committees were […]