The state counts students on Oct. 1 and Feb. 1 to determine how much money to reimburse the school for student expenses.

Only four of 18 French exchange teachers at the charter say they are willing to stay next year.

Board president apologizes, says it is highly unusual for the doors to the meeting to be locked.

Memphis and Baton Rouge are possible locations, president says.

The money comes from $1.7 million reserve fund. Board president says he wasn’t comfortable waiting on on the Orleans Parish School Board to do the work.

But RSD official says all Type 5 charters have to pay about $90 per student for school property insurance. With $17,438 in charges so far, Morris Jeff documents show the school is on track to spend more than five times what it projected in property insurance expenses for the year.

Recent holiday breaks compelled Audubon Charter School’s F.A.M.E. Board to hold both its January and February meetings in February. The board’s meeting Saturday was a board training session. “Our responsibility is not just to show up at meetings, but to do work when we are not here,”  chair Cornelius Tilton said. Most of Tilton’s presentation […]

The board that governs Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School and Joseph Craig Elementary will be meeting today at noon at 1617 Caffin Ave. The meeting agenda was posted on the school’s website and is available here.

Parents say they are worried about the school’s commitment to French curriculum.

Students from the new charter school recently played their first basketball game, but the school’s education director says record attendance was a bigger accomplishment for the fledgling alternative school.