Category: 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.
Lusher provides name of admission test, after state attorney general’s opinion
School would not release information, saying it could give some an unfair advantage.
School choice since Katrina: the promises made, the challenges ahead
New Orleans emerges as the nation's boldest experiment in school innovation.
Nostalgia undermines struggle to make so-so schools truly excellent
What the older generation remembers from their own school days is increasingly irrelevant to a changing world.
Karr band program, others, didn’t get usual listing on the citywide OneApp form
New review process prevented inclusion on the applications that were made available last week.
Live blog: New Orleans schools chief meeting with parents in Broadmoor
Town-hall meeting is designed to let parents bring concerns straight to the superintendent.
Four charter high schools are now eligible to return to Orleans Parish School Board
Charter board leaders will decide in coming months whether to switch for 2016-17 school year.
Live blog: New Orleans schools superintendent to hold forum in Algiers
New leaders to have sixth of seven parents meetings to hear concerns.
Jindal and the Core: Louisiana snubs the Manchurian Candidate
When it comes to the Common Core, it can be hard to tell right-wingers from lefties.
State releases 2015 report cards and school scores for most high schools
Schools with just ninth through 12th grade received letter grades.
