The ARISE Academy board expects a 26 percent increase in 2012-13 revenues to be offset by spending for new staff to instruct additional students, a growing number of them students with special needs. The annual budget hearing was held Aug. 22 at 5 p.m. Board members Jen Walcott, Larry Eustis, Elaine Reyes, Katie Beck and […]

At the board’s first meeting of the new school year, ARISE Academy principal Andrew Shahan reported that he expects an 11 point increase in the school’s performance score when the state releases final figures in several weeks. Currently, the school’s performance score is 67.1, short of the state’s acceptable minimum of 75. ARISE is in […]

The recently released 2012-13 budget for Lagniappe Academies projects a year-end surplus, with expenses dipping even as enrollment rises.  With revenues projected at $2.1 and expenses at $2 million, Lagniappe envisions an $87,654 surplus at the end of the coming year. It would allow the school to make up for last year’s deficit and begin […]

Back in June, as the Lycee Francais Charter School board prepared to take a vote on the school’s 2012-13 school budget, a reporter from The Lens told board members that they had not given proper public notice that the vote was pending, a violation of state law. The board members promptly took action, and today […]

Milestone/SABIS will enjoy a healthy end-of-year fund balance, thanks to the addition of ninth-graders and the school’s move from Uptown New Orleans to Gretna, the board announced at its annual budget hearing. Next year’s budget is $4.7 million, a 30 percent increase from last year. The 2012-2013 budget hearing, held August 20, was attended by […]

View the budget hearing agenda here, and the meeting agenda here.

The August 23 budget meeting and board meeting agenda has been reprinted on this .pdf.

Not enough members showed up to comprise a quorum at Audubon Charter School’s monthly board meeting, Aug. 18. The result was a relatively short and uneventful meeting at which it was not possible even to formally accept the minutes from the July meeting. One topic of discussion was a civil complaint that has halted renovation […]

At an August 18 board retreat, members of the board that governs Crescent City Schools discussed long-term goals and end of the year reports for the two schools they run, and defined their own roles and responsibilities. Board members also heard from Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools executive director Caroline Roemer Shirley, who discussed […]

Review the agenda for the 8/22/12 board meeting here.