Officials at Mary D. Coghill and Fannie C. Williams voted this week to transfer from recovery district.
Category: Schools
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Superintendents back funding formula, say they’ll ensure special-education spending
Schools would get more money for special-education students, less for gifted students.
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Charter schools under Algiers and Choice boards to remain with recovery district
Seven of their combined nine schools have improved enough to return to Orleans Parish School Board.
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In threatened TOPS cuts, middle class glimpses reality faced by low-income families
College will be out of reach for more Louisianans if state budget mess guts scholarship program.
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KIPP leaders vote to return high school to auspices of Orleans School Board
Four others in the 10-school network were eligible, but move only would apply to Renaissance High.
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ReNEW hires former Jefferson superintendent in response to testing, special-ed violations
State required the network to hire a consultant to comply with corrective-action plan after cheating.
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Algiers Charter Schools assigns test-coordinator at each of its six schools
The move to assign responsibility is in addition to the monitors the network pledged to hire.
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Two cheating investigations lead charters in RSD to hire testing-security monitors
State will pay for monitoring of state-chartered schools up for review. Other RSD schools will hire their own.
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Landry-Walker principal, other administrators, suspended with pay amid cheating probe
The move comes shortly after the Algiers Charter School Association fired its CEO.
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Traffic-camera company volunteers to fix city’s school-zone warning lights
Malfunctioning lights put students at risk, but also keeps city and company from collecting traffic fines.