Review the spreadsheet data here (pdf).
Category: Charter Schools
Music and arts-based start-up ready to open the curtain under OPSB direction
Encore Academy, one of the first charter schools approved by the Orleans Parish School Board since the board chartered the bulk of its schools following Hurricane Katrina, is ready for the 2012-2013 school year, board members announced Tuesday at their monthly meeting. The type-one charter school, which shares an Uptown campus with the new state-of-the-art Crocker Arts and […]
Board discusses dissolution of old group, chartering of new school
At their July meeting, board members of Crescent City Schools discussed best practices for dissolving the nonprofit that ran Akili Academy this year. They also discussed their intent to charter Paul Habans Elementary School for the 2013-2014 year. Akili Academy’s nonprofit board of directors is dissolving because Akili Academy is now run by Crescent City, […]
Budget increase of 8 percent matched by rising revenues; $230,000 cushion
Directors of Edgar P. Harney Elementary have approved a budget for 2012-13 that rises by 8 percent, board members disclosed at their budget hearing, July 30. The board laid out its projected budget at a public hearing on July 30 and then immediately approved it. The public was notified of the hearing in the July […]
Board meeting agenda released
View the N.O. SCI High board meeting agenda here.
[Corrected:] Budgeted expenses continue to exceed revenues for the coming year
As presented by the board of directors at a public hearing on July 30, the draft 2012-13 budget for New Orleans College Preparatory Academies shows an $11.2 million increase over last year last year’s in total expenditures, a 14 percent increase based on a projected enrollment of 960 students. Correction: The original story misstated the […]
Grabbag of issues on three campuses preoccupy trustees at July meeting
At their monthly meeting, July 25, trustees of the International School of Louisiana pondered an eclectic batch of issues ranging from solar panels to Title I funding to the décor of modular classrooms. “Aesthetic is important,” an audience member interjected as the conversation touched on the modular classrooms being designed for the Olivier Street campus. […]