An employee in the accounting department at Lusher Charter School embezzled $25,000 last school year by forging five checks she wrote to herself from the school’s bank account, according to an audit report obtained by The Lens. The audit report doesn’t identify the “high ranking employee in the Business Office,” who was ultimately fired. Nor […]
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Fired Lycée teacher sues school leaders for character defamation
A teacher who was fired from Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans Charter is suing the school and two of its leaders, saying they damaged her reputation after they had an officer escort her from campus last month. Darleen Mipro, 39, was charged with criminal trespassing and disturbing the peace on Nov. 30, when she says […]
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Audubon leaders still worry Lusher will grab Allen building
Audubon Charter School officials on Saturday were still feeling the sting. Two days earlier, an Orleans Parish School Board committee discussed whether to give the Henry W. Allen School building to Lusher Charter School. It’s a facility Audubon officials say they’ve long had their eye on for their own campus. Though Orleans Parish board members […]
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Morris Jeff board focuses on governance
Board members for the Morris Jeff Community School spent much of their Dec. 11 meeting shoring up ways they hope to strengthen their governance over the 275-student campus. The board, which has already started holding monthly workshops to educate board members, formally assigned the following board committees. Finance: treasurer Melissa Jagers and Jennifer Weishaupt. Governance: […]
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New Orleans College Prep to take over Crocker in June
New Orleans College Prep leaders on Saturday laid out their plans to take over Crocker Arts and Technology this summer. News of the management transfer came last week after the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted not to renew Crocker’s charter due to its students’ poor standardized test scores. Crocker’s school performance score […]
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Dr. King Charter forgoes chance to rejoin Orleans Parish district
Dr. King Charter School will not be rejoining the Orleans Parish School District. Its governing board, Friends of King, last week decided against sending a letter of intent to leave the Recovery School District and rejoin the local school district as its improved academic performance allows. Principal Doris Hicks told the board during its Dec. […]
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ReNEW votes to add another school to its network
ReNEW’s board of directors voted Thursday to expand the four-school network by taking on another school next year. ReNEW currently serves about 2,400 students and with the additional elementary school, the network will aim to serve 3,300 students. Encouraged by the Recovery School District to apply for another charter last year, ReNEW did just that […]
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Pride College Prep leaders prepare to release control to new hands
In their first meeting since the state leaders decided against extending Pride College Prep’s charter, board members overseeing the school grappled Monday with how exactly to turn the campus over to new management. When the Pride’s charter ends on June 30, 2013, the 330-student school will likely be taken over by ARISE Academy, Pride school […]
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Details of Walker-Landry merger don't alleviate critics' concerns
More than 100 L.B. Landry and O. Perry Walker students, alumni, and parents met with representatives of the Algiers Charter School Association again Wednesday night to discuss a potential plan for a merger of the two West Bank high schools. It was the latest in a series of public forums the ACSA is hosting to […]
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NET High students improve on state grad exam, Ostberg says
NET Charter High School students performed better on Louisiana’s required graduation exam this fall compared with last year. School director Elizabeth Ostberg presented the scores to the Educators for Quality Alternatives board during their Dec. 11 meeting. Twenty-seven sophomores and juniors took the state-mandated test in October, though Ostberg said, “all of these students should […]