Announcement comes amid continued growth in COVID-19 cases in the city and across the state.
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Parent group calls for delay to school year amid rising COVID-19 cases
Two teachers unions in New Orleans have also asked that the school year be delayed.
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State: Exception to President’s visa ban will allow 70 teachers from abroad
Uptown’s French-curriculum Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans faced a staff shortage of up to 35 percent of their teachers due to the virus and President’s visa ban.
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BESE approves minimum standards for school reopening
Some parents and educators don’t think the measures go far enough while others urged the state to allow local districts to set their own policies.
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School buildings may have to stay closed in phase two, district evaluating
District and city officials said they will announce a plan next week.
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State board of education to set COVID-19 minimum safety standards for schools Tuesday
Local school systems will have to adopt the minimum standards BESE approves Tuesday. It’s unclear exactly how that will work in New Orleans schools.
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French teachers bound for Lycée Français unlikely to make start of school year due to Trump visa ban, state agencies say
The French government and local schools hope to get teachers here by January, after the president’s visa ban is set to expire.
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‘Is it really safe to reopen schools?’ Educators, parents, students discuss concerns about reopening in virtual town hall
A NOLA Public Schools survey found that only 49% of teachers felt safe to return as of the beginning of June. And COVID-19 infection rates have not improved since.
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To ensure students on track to graduate, NOLA Public Schools will require high schools to turn over details on course offerings
The trend in the district’s increased oversight comes one year after half the class of John F. Kennedy High School learned — after graduation — they had not been eligible for diplomas.
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Positive monitors’ report could mean end to federal oversight of special education in New Orleans, but civil rights group says that’s premature
Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the five-year-old consent decree case say the point of oversight was to ensure better delivery of special education services. In spite of a ‘substantial compliance’ finding, they’re not confident New Orleans’ schools have achieved that.