Chat with the reporter and editor who worked on our story about the Recovery School District’s compliance with No Child Left Behind.

Future Is Now Schools founder Steve Barr says the board is working on things it can control – and that doesn’t include what happened in the editing room of the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Also, one board member questioned why the school was over budget in administrative expenses and under budget in instructional expenses.

Our live coverage of three nights of interviews and discussion.

Cost estimates for the renovations spiraled from $625,000 to now $1.6 million, leading Choice leaders to pursue a lawsuit.

The hourlong International School of Louisiana Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday kicked off with a presentation by the Louisiana Department of Education to update the board on the Charter School Performance Compact. These changes in scoring Type 2 charters such as ISL will use a scale that tops out with 150 as a perfect […]

The absence of a permanent building three years after opening is continuing to weigh heavily on leaders at Lagniappe Academy. Board member Dan Henderson described a general lack of space and facilities, and trouble attracting new students and teachers, as some of the difficulties of operating a school out of modular buildings. “It’s an ever-present […]

The chairman of Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans’ governing board got his marching orders this week in a public meeting  — and no one ever mentioned his name. A five-person committee voted him out of consideration for the school’s next board with no discussion regarding the merits of his application. It did so thanks to an […]