The 19 minute F.A.M.E. Inc. board meeting this Saturday began with the Audubon Charter School’s Principal Janice Dupuy updating the board on her and Assistant Principal Dawn Collins’ recent attendance at the COMPASS School Leader Evaluator Training in Baton Rouge. The training program concentrated on the Common Core, a program that focuses on elevating expectations […]

At its monthly board meeting the Choice Foundation unanimously voted to remain under the Recovery School District and not return to the Orleans Parish School Board at the end of the 2012–13 school year. The Choice board governs Lafayette Academy, which was one of more than a dozen schools eligible to move under the oversight […]

The governing board at Ben Franklin High School, Advocates for Academic Excellence in Education, received a positive audit report, and grappled with lingering transportation issues at their Nov. 15 meeting. Representatives from the Bourgeois Bennett accounting firm, who conducted an independent audit of the school’s finances, reported a “clean” result. This designation was defined as […]

The New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy could not reach a quorum at its monthly meeting Thursday night.  Heavy traffic over the Crescent City Connection prevented two board members from reaching the school’s west bank campus. Members Terry Ebbert, Jack Bergman, Marcellus Grace and W. David Whiddon were present, two shy of a quorum.  As […]

Pride College Preparatory Academy’s board of directors met Tuesday night and received a clean audit. The school received an unqualified opinion, a clean audit, from Carr, Riggs & Ingram. Michael Richard, school leader, said Pride has begun to use Louisiana State University for special education evaluations.  He said next year they would partner with LSU […]

The Morris Jeff Community School Board cancelled their meeting last night. Only three members were able to attend, too few for quorum. Board members Stacey Gengel, Jolene Jeff and president Aesha Rasheed waited a few minutes, with principal Patricia Perkins and finance and operations director Jared Frank, to confirm the last cancellation. No one could […]

The board of directors of Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans voted Monday to cut more than $200,000 from the charter school’s 2012-13 budget, after members learned the school was operating at a deficit of $85,000. The board went into a closed session to discuss how it would move forward in light of news that school leader Jean-Jacques Grandiere is […]

Director Ben Kleban kicked off the Nov. 13 board meeting with a highly encouraging academic update on the three schools run by New Orleans College Prep Academies. In the 2011-12 school year, New Orleans College Prep, Sylvanie Williams Elementary and Walter L. Cohen High improved by 14 points, for an aggregate  performance score of 82, […]

Eliminating seven staff positions will bring the budget for the current year into the black, chief financial officer Tom Slager advised the Intercultural Charter School board at its monthly meeting on Monday night. Intercultural’s projected budget was based on an enrollment 34 students higher than turned up. Decreasing payroll by about $400,000 will more than […]