Board’s curiosity is provoked when principal reports that five students were suspended for “gambling.”

Academy defies military-school stereotype by maintaining expulsion rate of zero.

How much the rent on the new school will be is still up in the air.

The facility, launched by Tulane’s Department of Pediatrics, is now under new management.

Board authorizes KIPP network to take charge of cafeteria food.

Enrollment projected at 550 as the school transitions to new facility on Lake Forest Boulevard.

Spending category with biggest increase — 67% — is in support of programming for gifted students.

Board recruitment also under way. Members urge special outreach to Vietnamese and African-American communities.

Plans to use the Cabildo as the base of a six-week program on the French Quarter have been put on hold, as the building undergoes renovation.

A member acknowledges that the prior board yielded to cronyism in agreeing to the add the grades ahead of schedule.