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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Landry-Walker principal, other administrators, suspended with pay amid cheating probe
The move comes shortly after the Algiers Charter School Association fired its CEO.
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.
First school taken by RSD set to return to local school board oversight
Pierre A. Capdau Charter School, at right, had the dubious distinction of being the first failing school to be taken over by the state-run Recovery School District. Now it and Lake Area New Tech Early College High are among the first to move back under the auspices of the Orleans Parish School Board.
