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Reporting on education in New Orleans and across Louisiana. This category explores how policies, leadership, and community voices shape the experiences of students, teachers, and families—covering everything from classroom challenges to school reforms and success stories.

Einstein Charter plans to deepen its roots in eastern New Orleans; seeks students, funding

Board recruitment also under way. Members urge special outreach to Vietnamese and African-American communities.
by Alyssa Owens May 21, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Louisiana follows experts’ tips to prevent, detect standardized test cheating

Shortcomings are in the number of computers in schools and charters that investigate themselves.
by Jessica Williams May 21, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Plagiarism on standardized tests three times higher in New Orleans schools than rest of Louisiana

New Orleans schools continue to have a higher rate of plagiarism on standardized tests than the rest of the state. Two factors could be at play: There could be a greater pressure to succeed, and there are more low-scorers in big cities.
by Jessica Williams May 21, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

How The Lens reported our latest story on standardized testing in New Orleans

Even using method preferred by the state, New Orleans is an outlier.
by Jessica Williams May 21, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Addition of sixth grade and efforts to recruit at-risk students dominate Lycée board meeting

Plans to use the Cabildo as the base of a six-week program on the French Quarter have been put on hold, as the building undergoes renovation.
by Joshua Johnston May 20, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Lycée Français community squabbles anew, this time over adding out-of-sequence grades

A member acknowledges that the prior board yielded to cronyism in agreeing to the add the grades ahead of schedule.
by Joshua Johnston May 20, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

College entrance rate: city public high grads edge past statewide peers

Nearly 70 percent of 2012 graduates of New Orleans public high schools went on to college, new data show.
by Jessica Williams May 20, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Public hearing today: Encore Academy reviews budget as it prepares for move to St. Roch

by Stephen Babcock May 20, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

Einstein Charter projected budget grows by $1.2 million in the coming year

by Alyssa Owens May 20, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

NOMMA budget hearing is tonight, just ahead of board meeting: public is welcome

by Joshua Johnston May 20, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019

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