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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.

Here are the school buildings in New Orleans that will get water filters to eliminate lead

About a dozen schools that aren’t in district facilities aren’t included, but they can buy into the contract.
by Marta Jewson September 1, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Water filters to protect against lead will be installed at most New Orleans schools this fall

School districts sought the filters after dropping a plan to test school water.
by Marta Jewson August 23, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

New Orleans school districts scrapped plans to test water for lead. The new plan: install filters.

A year ago, the two school districts that oversee schools in the city announced they were “proactively” coming up with a plan to test water supplies for lead. But they didn’t act. Now the plan is to install water filters. Meanwhile, kids are back in school.
by Marta Jewson August 22, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

School lights are flashing again, though some students have been in class for weeks

Charters have different starting dates, but the city picks one day to turn on all the lights.
by Marta Jewson August 14, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Principals file paperwork to convert Ben Franklin, Bethune elementary schools to charters

New Orleans could again be on its way to becoming the first city in the country with only charter schools.
by Marta Jewson August 9, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Woman convicted in school board bribery scheme is now director of outreach at Collegiate Academies

Federal prosecutors said bribes for Stacy Martin’s mother, then a school board member, went into her daughter’s account.
by Marta Jewson August 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

What’s left of Booker T. Washington High School has been taken off National Register of Historic Places

Most of the school was demolished, and the remaining auditorium is not significant enough on its own.
by Marta Jewson July 28, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Former head of charter group led by school district employees may return to public employment

Nicolette London quit her job at the Orleans Parish school district to become CEO of ExCEED. Now she wants to return.
by Marta Jewson July 19, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Two years later, no resolution in case of SciTech Academy employee charged with molesting a boy

Ronald Johnson left the school the day after the alleged incident. His case has been delayed 15 times.
by Marta Jewson July 18, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

Here’s how New Orleans elementary schools did on standardized tests this spring

by Marta Jewson July 12, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

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