The main-round results were released Wednesday, parents must register with the school or enter the second round
OneApp enrollment lottery results bring mixed emotions
ReNEW charter network relocating McNair students, closing campus this summer
District releases Plessy School’s lead test results
The district rushed to install filters after a 13-year-old tested the water in mid-March
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Class Dismissed: OneApp
Part three in a series on school closures in New Orleans. The centralized school enrollment lottery takes months to conduct and offers special priority to students in closing schools. Two parents whose kids attend closing schools tell us how they’re playing the odds for next year.
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Fired New Beginnings ‘whistleblower’ asks board to rehire him
Runell King said Kennedy High school employees improperly inflated students’ grades from failing to passing. He was fired and has since hired an attorney.
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Kennedy High School voided 144 state exams last year, after giving wrong test
The school had, by far, the most tests voided due to irregularities of any school in the state. A lawyer for Kennedy’s charter group said the issue will be added to an ongoing investigation into other problems, including alleged grade-fixing.
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OPSB owes America—and our kids—smarter stewardship of school buildings
Diverting money from maintenance is a truly bad idea.
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Harney’s emergency bathroom repairs complete, school district says
The school district is leaving portable toilets on campus as a precaution.
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Lead filter installation now nearly complete at Plessy Community School
The move comes one week after a 7th-grader’s water test prompted action. Dozens of other New Orleans public schools are still waiting for lead filters.
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Students at school slated for closure face yet another hurdle: no bathrooms
Plumbing contractors were digging up Edgar P. Harney elementary school’s lush front lawn on Willow Street Tuesday afternoon while a portable toilet trailer sat on the school’s blacktop playground along busy Claiborne Avenue. “The bathrooms aren’t working,” one of the workers told The Lens.