Category: Charter Schools
In-depth coverage of New Orleans’ charter school system and its impact on students, families, and communities. This category examines accountability, equity, and outcomes—asking how the city’s experiment in education reform is shaping the future of public schooling.
School Board attorney takes issue with property opinion from charter’s lawyer
Lycee Francais board and counsel were considering a plan to have a third party buy Priestly site.
Plessy Community School buys Hansberry site
As a Type 1 charter, school is responsible for getting its own facility.
Foundation Prep attracts enough students to make it through first year, board told
Only 16 students were registered when doors opened last month. The student body is now at 38.
New charter unexpectedly adds grade but appears short of enrollment goal
Equity, transparency undercut by holdouts against OneApp school admissions process
It's time to level the playing field and provide a uniform application process for all OPSB charters.
Other charters will get material from closed Lagniappe Academies
The nonprofit that ran the school will auction off modular buildings next month.
Lagniappe Academies cuts instructional time to prepare for school’s closing
Last day will come a month sooner than first planned, and students are being dismissed two hours earlier.
Young charter school, Bricolage, to get John McDonogh campus on Esplanade
Decision means the site returns to control of the Orleans Parish School Board.
Change to Open Meetings Law catches at least two charter boards off guard
Law passed last year says public bodies can't count weekends in providing 24-hour notice to public.
