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.
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Schools
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public hearing today: Encore Academy reviews budget as it prepares for move to St. Roch
Einstein Charter projected budget grows by $1.2 million in the coming year
NOMMA budget hearing is tonight, just ahead of board meeting: public is welcome
Hearing May 22: New Beginnings schools find various ways to budget a revenue windfall
Money will plug deficits, fill reserves and add support staff at four charter schools: Gentilly Terrace, Medard Nelson, New Tech and Pierre Capdau.
Easton budget for next year reflects slight revenue dip, following this year’s windfall
Fact-check: Landrieu’s account of improving New Orleans schools mostly accurate
The schools in the Recovery School District have shown the most improvement.
