Renovation of the former John A. Shaw Elementary School will cost about $4.9 million.

The school’s audit report, fundraising, and spending plans for the coming semester dominated discussion as the Educators for Quality Alternatives board met Tuesday night at The NET Charter High School. An uptick in academic performance was also noted with enthusiasm. The board reviewed a generally favorable audit report of the 2012-13 school year drafted by […]

Dec. 19 meeting agenda of Advocates for Academic Excellence.

The governance committee of Collegiate Academy’s board of directors met Tuesday night to discuss whether to remove Sci Academy from the state’s Recovery School District and place it under the oversight of the Orleans Parish School Board. Sci Academy is the only of Collegiate Academy’s three schools that qualified to move to governance by the […]

Jubilation over athletic director Jeremiah Scott’s coach-of-the-year award was dampened quickly by a review of Miller-McCoy’s finances at Monday night’s board meeting. “We’re getting into some tricky times,” board member David Bailey said, before announcing a net negative income of approximately $293,000 during the July-to-November period. The board discussed the main factors that contributed to […]

The school’s financial records are clean and there’s money in the bank, but administrators need to keep an eye on test scores. That was the gist of an audit presented to the board of McDonogh City Park Academy Tuesday night by Don Wheat, a certified public accountant with Carr, Riggs and Ingram. In other business, […]

CEO Kevin Guitterrez said he thinks Sprint will discount the school system’s telecommunications bills if subsidies fall short.

First-year school reporting growth in student achievement and fund-raising.