Personnel changes among both directors and faculty of New Orleans College Preparatory Academies were the center of attention as the board board gathered Tuesday for a monthly meeting. Schools leader Ben Kleban said more teachers than  expected had taken up his offer to move to Crocker Elementary. Five or six teachers from Sylvanie Williams Elementary will […]

Continuing to run Cohen will depend on the Recovery School District’s willingness to help with finances, board chairman Steve Barr said.

Join reporter Marta Jewson as she live-blogs today’s noon meeting of Lycee’s nominating committee.

Policy states that “without exception” all requests from media and local, state and federal agencies will be required to go through the principal or his designee.

A public hearing on the $33 million budget will be held Thursday, May 9, at 5:30 p.m.

The school’s budget figures anticipate a surplus of $70,620 by June 30, despite operating over budget as of March 31.

A retired school administrator, an AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust officer, and an ExxonMobil engineer are the last three expected to interview during the 5:30 p.m. meeting.

School leaders never actually sent the fiscal 2013 budget to the state for approval as law requires. They expect to vote on a revision Tuesday morning.

Two committees are racing to make a May 13 deadline to recommend board member and CEO prospects to the full board.

Students and community members have expressed fears about turf wars between some students from the two campuses.