Category
Schools
Reporting on education in New Orleans and across Louisiana. This category explores how policies, leadership, and community voices shape the experiences of students, teachers, and families—covering everything from classroom challenges to school reforms and success stories.
Animal House where pledges were scalded is targeted by Tulane for cop substation
Politicians side with parents asking review of plans to put KIPP charter at Colton site
With RSD Superintendent Vallas leaving, state moves in new liaison, undertakes search
Ghost schools haunt New Orleans neighborhoods
Five years after the Orleans Parish School Board shut down dozens of hurricane-damaged public schools, New Orleans residents continue to live alongside the wreckage.
Consultants give early glimpse of report on UNO-SUNO merger, stress differences
Most charter schools continue to flout open-meetings laws by ignoring requests
Independent schoolhouse authority proposed
School officials struggle with locations, attendance zones
Uncertainties about the relationship between charter schools and the neighborhoods in which they are located continues to dog New Orleans school officials as they work out the final details of a master plan for rebuilding and assigning public school facilities.
RSD superintendent Vallas not working full schedule because of disaster work
RSD boss Paul Vallas is no regular school employee, and his reputation as a go-getter may cause one to think he’s worked more than expected. But it’s more like a fraction.
