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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.

Consultants give early glimpse of report on UNO-SUNO merger, stress differences

by Jessica Williams February 8, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Most charter schools continue to flout open-meetings laws by ignoring requests

by Jessica Williams January 27, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Independent schoolhouse authority proposed

by Ariella Cohen January 27, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Ariella Cohen January 7, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Jessica Williams December 9, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

50 years later, schools still effectively segregated

Fifty years after New Orleans desegregated public schools, 90 percent of the city’s public school students are black, and nearly a quarter of public schools have student populations that are 100 percent black, analysis shows.
by Ariella Cohen November 15, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Priestly Charter gets campus

Albeit temporary, the students at Priestley Charter School will have a home before the new Louisiana State University Hospital claims their current address for its own in January.
by Jessica Williams November 11, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

LSU faculty forming union to fight state budget cuts

In light of layoffs due to massive budget cuts within Louisiana’s public-funded university systems, Louisiana State University faculty members are forming a union, falling in line with colleagues at other state universities.
by Jessica Williams October 22, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Struggling charter high school again booted from its home

By January, Priestly School of Architecture and Construction seniors Tamara Handy and Jason Lang will have attended classes at three campuses in four years, moving with the peripatetic New Orleans charter high school.
by Jessica Williams October 15, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Charter schools not required to comply with proposal to help special ed students

by Ariella Cohen October 14, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

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