The Orleans Parish school district plans to take over the embattled charter school next month and operate it through the spring. But the district is not guaranteeing it will retain the school's current staff. Interviews started this week.
The Orleans Schools Superintendent has called for the school to close. District expected to run the school directly through the end of the year following the end of its charter.
The installations won’t be done until the spring of 2019, nearly three years after the school districts first promised to test for lead.
Orleans school district superintendent is in the process of revoking Harney’s charter. The school will close this spring. Harney's lawyer denies sunshine law violations at Friday meeting.
Superintendent Henderson Lewis presented his closure recommendations as a report. Public comment was not allowed.
The school would be run directly by the district. At a meeting on Tuesday, Lewis renewed his call for the Harney's board to surrender the school.
The school is the only non-charter elementary in the Orleans Parish school district.
District officials previously suggested that the schools were being considered for closure. Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s recommendations came the week after school letter grades were released by the state.
Cypress Academy parents will learn the school’s fate at a Monday parent meeting next week.
State ratings will factor heavily in the superintendent’s school closure recommendations released next week.
