Council approves measure to give Mayor’s Office a say on education grants
Harrah’s Fund dollars previously went to the Orleans Parish School Board. But the city has other educational priorities.
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Amid COVID-19 surge, Algiers Charter reverts to remote learning
The NOLA Public Schools district is tracking 136 COVID-19 winter break cases and 451 people are quarantining. Those numbers don’t include tests taken this week.
Another New Orleans charter school will close due to low enrollment
IDEA Oscar Dunn is the second school this week that officials have said will close due to enrollment problems. The school opened in 2019 and has operated through three pandemic school years.
First school closure announced as NOLA Public Schools tackles ‘right-sizing’ amid declining enrollment
FirstLine’s Live Oak elementary school will close at the end of the school year. FirstLine took over the school in 2018 but officials say it has struggled with under enrollment.
More details on NOLA Public Schools officials’ ‘right-sizing’ plan to come in January
Population growth in New Orleans has not kept up with the expansion of charter schools over the past decade. District officials are considering consolidations and possible closures to address the problem.
LDH official encourages back-to-school covid testing after holidays amid omicron surge
Public health experts are highly concerned about omicron spread over the holiday season.
Dr. King Charter School earns three-year renewal
The Orleans Parish School Board also approved one high school’s request to expand to eighth grade.
NOLA Public Schools students 5 and up must be vaccinated by Feb. 1
Cantrell administration to extend proof-of-vaccination requirement for restaurants to include anyone over the age of 5.
Orleans Parish School Board continues search for a new superintendent
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School awaits Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s charter renewal recommendation to come Thursday.
Cases edge up, quarantines nearly triple in K-12 city schools; Tulane gives undergrads remote option to close out semester
Tulane University and Loyola University are also seeing a rise in cases in recent weeks.
