Lycee Francais board and counsel were considering a plan to have a third party buy Priestly site.
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Plessy Community School buys Hansberry site
As a Type 1 charter, school is responsible for getting its own facility.
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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.
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New charter unexpectedly adds grade but appears short of enrollment goal
After struggling to meet its enrollment goal, Foundation Preparatory Academy must rewrite its budget for a student body less than half the size leaders envisioned for its inaugural year.
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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.
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Other charters will get material from closed Lagniappe Academies
The nonprofit that ran the school will auction off modular buildings next month.
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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.
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Young charter school, Bricolage, to get John McDonogh campus on Esplanade
Decision means the site returns to control of the Orleans Parish School Board.
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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.
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Two city charter schools engaging with teachers unions for bargaining
The move by the Morris Jeff board to establish a contract with the union is the second action by a city charter school in the past month, following Benjamin Franklin High School, that indicates teachers — and school operators — may be willing to give unions a role in education.