Tomorrow’s board meeting agenda is now available, and may be reviewed here.

Sophie B. Wright Charter School has hired an attorney in its nearly six-year effort to get the Orleans Parish School Board to hand over FEMA money due to the school for damage sustained in Hurricane Katrina. The sum of money, as yet of uncertain size, is needed for building renovations, and a resolution seems to […]

The group of disgruntled McDonogh City Park Academy teachers who attended last month’s board meeting to ask  for help with student discipline seems to have been satisfied. As detailed at the board’s monthly meeting, Dec. 13, the day after the November meeting the teachers and administrators agreed on several school-wide measures.  Board members Emily Waterfield […]

Correction: This story has been updated to correct errors. In an earlier version, the statement about hiring New Orleans natives was misattributed. The school is counting on improved academic performance to attract teachers; it has no plans to offer a retirement plan. The request for proposals for custodial services was reissued after one vendor complained […]

The agenda for Thursday’s board meeting at Morris Jeff is now available here.

NOMMA’s board released its agenda for tomorrow’s board meeting. Review it here.

The Advocates for Academic Excellence in Education, Inc., which governs Ben Franklin High School, released the agenda for tomorrow’s board meeting (reprinted below). Regular Board of Directors Meeting Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:00 PM Benjamin Franklin High School Library Meeting is open to the general public Agenda 1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. […]

The board salutes students associated with their school newspaper. Photo by Alex Belser Just outside the gates of the navy base that was formerly a pillar of the Algiers neighborhood, teachers wonder what their future might be in a rapidly changing school system. The Algiers Charter School Association, which now runs eight schools in the […]

The board of Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans has found a new home, at 631 State Street, and arranged a long-term lease with St. Francis of Assisi Church. This location is convenient for the many Lycée families who live close by and the new building, with a capacity for upwards of 500 students, gives the […]

A curriculum change is imminent. At its monthly meeting on Dec. 10, the Advocates for Arts Based Education Corp., the board governing Lusher Charter School, discussed the school’s planned switch from LEAP test standards to standards associated with the Common Core. Patty Glaser, the assistant head of school, said Lusher  plans the shift over the […]