Morgan will stay through June 2014 and the board has the option to extend his contract then.

Future Is Now founder Steve Barr is expected to attend Tuesday’s 6 p.m. meeting at the school.

While other schools seek radio and TV spots, City Park leaders say word of the school is spreading in other ways.

The state requires charter school boards to have a minimum of seven members.

Leaders discuss holding an end-of-year ‘celebration’ despite the fact that its closure is was precipitated by poor student performance.

E-rate reimbursement is slow, too, as officials from the federal program review how ReNEW is using the telecommunications dollars.

About 82 percent of students at the A school qualify for the federal free and reduced price lunch program.

The checks were written to an organization led by the school’s former business manager.

Parents at Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans have the opportunity to hear Caroline Roemer Shirley deliver ‘Charter Schools 101’ at Tuesday night’s PTO meeting. Roemer Shirley is the executive director of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools. Her organization stepped in to aid Lycée at the request of state Superintendent John White amid parents’ cries to […]

New Orleans Science and Mathematics High School leaders are embarking on a five-month budgeting process. Co-principals Claire Jecklin and Chana Benenson, along with School Finance Director Claudia Kent told members of Sci High governing board Feb. 21 that the 2013-14 estimated budget will be based on 375 students. Sci High’s enrollment has fluxuated between 368 […]