The Spirit of Excellence Academy, which governs Edgar P. Harney Elementary, met briefly Monday night to discuss last minute preparations for the first day of school. Students will return to class on August 15. Currently, enrollment stands at 394 students, although numbers currently fluctuate once classes begin. The board spproved the academic calendar for the […]
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2012-13 budget available for review
Inspect the budget for the ReNEW schools here.
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Board meeting agenda released
The ReNEW board meeting agenda can be found here.
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Interim site for school to be ready in the nick of time
“It’s good to work with professionals,” NOMMA Commandant Col. Bill Davis said, in a reference to Woodward Design + Build construction firm. “They said they’re going to be done by Friday the 10th.” At their monthly meeting, Col. Davis updated the New Orleans Military/Maritime Academy board on efforts to prepare the school’s interim site for […]
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Proposed 2012-13 budget released
Review the spreadsheet data here (pdf).
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Music and arts-based start-up ready to open the curtain under OPSB direction
Encore Academy, one of the first charter schools approved by the Orleans Parish School Board since the board chartered the bulk of its schools following Hurricane Katrina, is ready for the 2012-2013 school year, board members announced Tuesday at their monthly meeting. The type-one charter school, which shares an Uptown campus with the new state-of-the-art Crocker Arts and […]
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Board discusses dissolution of old group, chartering of new school
At their July meeting, board members of Crescent City Schools discussed best practices for dissolving the nonprofit that ran Akili Academy this year. They also discussed their intent to charter Paul Habans Elementary School for the 2013-2014 year. Akili Academy’s nonprofit board of directors is dissolving because Akili Academy is now run by Crescent City, […]
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State lifts OPSB financial status; will charters remain wary?
The Orleans Parish School Board has finally escaped a state designation that has stigmatized it for the past eight years. Its financial status is no longer deemed “high-risk,” board president Thomas Robichaux announced Thursday. The state Department of Education first slapped the high-risk label on the School Board in 2004, after the then-bankrupt district was […]
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Budget increase of 8 percent matched by rising revenues; $230,000 cushion
Directors of Edgar P. Harney Elementary have approved a budget for 2012-13 that rises by 8 percent, board members disclosed at their budget hearing, July 30. The board laid out its projected budget at a public hearing on July 30 and then immediately approved it. The public was notified of the hearing in the July […]