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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.

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.
by Andre Perry February 23, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson February 19, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson February 18, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson February 18, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson February 16, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Landry-Walker principal, other administrators, suspended with pay amid cheating probe

The move comes shortly after the Algiers Charter School Association fired its CEO.
by Marta Jewson February 15, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson February 15, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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.
by Marta Jewson February 11, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

Carver High broke special-education law by suspending student for nearly 5 weeks

The school also failed to meet a deadline for expelling the child, who has returned to class.
by Marta Jewson February 4, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

FirstLine close, but not quite ready to return campuses to School Board control

Three of five schools have improved enough to leave the Recovery School District.
by Amira Francis February 1, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019

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