Lawyer says the school has been using federal privacy laws to avoid records requests and will not agree to a procedure allowing students to waive those protections. Kennedy’s charter group will relinquish the school next month.
The board selected Grisela Jackson to serve out the final seven months of Ben Kleban’s term.
The federal suit, filed by Coghill’s charter group to stop the takeover, is not scheduled to go to trial until September, months after the district is scheduled to convert it into a direct-run school.
Community members asked for more input in the district's COVID-19 reopening task force.
Bus service and classroom sizes will depend heavily on what phase New Orleans is in when school starts the first week of August.
When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools, educators shifted lessons online
In 2004, the charter group was the first to open a Recovery School District takeover school.
The school held dozens of mini-ceremonies to ensure families and graduates could hear their senior’s name read aloud.
Brian Gibson was fired last year along with several other administrators at the school.
District 5 board member Ben Kleban resigns effective June 15, about seven months shy of the end of his term.
