The students’ lawyer, initially representing the class of 2019, believes transcript problems have affected all students.
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Coghill violated federal and state special education law, school district says
The Gentilly Woods school must make up services to at least nine students.
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State grants graduation waivers to 8 Kennedy HS students
The state granted the waivers due to ‘administrative error’ by the school’s staff. Students who receive the waivers may not be eligible for TOPS.
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KIPP will run Kennedy HS next school year, Orleans superintendent announces
John F. Kennedy High School’s charter group voted to give up authority of the high school at the end of the school year.
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KIPP New Orleans eyes takeover of troubled Kennedy HS
After a major graduation scandal, the New Beginnings Schools Foundation is giving up its charters for Kennedy High and Capdau Charter, an elementary school. The KIPP network is interested in taking both over.
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Kira Orange Jones qualified to run for BESE after judge denies challenge
The challenge was based on outstanding 2015 and 2017 state taxes. Jones filed them the day before qualifying for reelection.
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Kennedy HS student says he was unofficially sent home for months, describes what civil rights lawyer calls ‘blatant’ special education violations
Nicole Jones said her son was sent home after Thanksgiving break to learn on a school laptop at home, a placement that may have been done illegally.
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Warren Easton football coaches battered student with ‘Big Freedia’ paddle, lawsuit says
The lawsuit says the alleged incidents caused the student lasting harm.
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Fewer than half of Kennedy HS seniors who took summer courses now cleared to graduate, board president says
A review found that about 90 seniors from the class of 2019 were found ineligible to graduate. Some have been taking summer courses to graduate before the new school year begins, but only 24 of 53 have been cleared to move on by the state.
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Judge denies request to produce Kennedy HS transcripts; problems at school ‘worse than we thought,’ says plaintiffs’ lawyer
A Louisiana Department of Education employee said New Beginnings was not providing all the documentation needed to certify students. Even students who took summer classes are unsure if they have earned enough credits.