For years, the city’s Harrah’s Casino fund provided an annual allocation to several NOLA Public Schools district programs, as required by a lease agreement with the casino. The agreement changed last year.
Despite loosening of face covering rules, masks are still required at schools around the state.
The changes included increased protections against retaliation and requirements on reporting suspected abuse to the district. The district will now seek to approve them through OPSB policy, rather than contract revisions.
District officials say they have no knowledge of any COVID-19 variant cases tied to schools.
The school’s CEO says a union is ‘not in the best interests’ of the school.
Auditors are still working but revealed seven findings to board members at a special meeting Tuesday.
The district is tracking 21 active cases, the most since early March
Public comment on the renaming of 20 facilities is open until Friday.
The district is tracking 11 "active" cases, down from 14 last week.
The change won’t affect charter school names, which both advocates and opponents have criticized.
