State flags standardized test problems at 17 New Orleans schools in 2012-13
Most of the problems were small-scale plagiarism, according to a report.
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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.
RSD’s school closure process has uneven effect on students at failing schools
Based on 2013 test scores, are the students who left the Recovery School District’s four failing schools in better academic environments than before? If they left Mays and Henderson, they generally are. But not if they left Abramson and Johnson.
You want local, elected school boards? Charter-based voting would do it
Other states are pioneering different ways of bringing electoral control to charter school management. Would they work here?
Citizens Committee for Education releases Jan. 6 board meeting agenda
The board oversees Home A. Plessy Community School.
Carver students, parents protest schools’ discipline policies at December board meeting
"They talk to us like fifth-graders and we’re ninth-graders," said one student.
Crescent City Schools board loosens rules on midyear budget adjustments
But the board didn't comply with state law when it failed to solicit public comment before two votes.
With bump from F to D, Singleton wins charter renewal for three more years
McDonogh City Park Academy could leave state teachers pension system
Factoring into the school board's decision: whether it will join a charter network.
