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Schools
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.
State school board drops hot potato of school funding in local board’s lap
Surprise move comes as schools expected to lose money threaten to sue the state.
With last two schools choosing to transfer, total of 5 may move back to School Board
Officials at Mary D. Coghill and Fannie C. Williams voted this week to transfer from recovery district.
Superintendents back funding formula, say they’ll ensure special-education spending
Schools would get more money for special-education students, less for gifted students.
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.
