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.
Editor’s note: John Dibert relocates, renamed Phillis Wheatley Community School
State releases school-level information on student performance on PARCC tests
Live blog: School board member, superintendent holding forum in Gentilly
Town-hall-style event is part of series of meetings in each of seven school districts.
Live blog: Schools superintendent holds forum for parents in Eastern New Orleans
Henderson Lewis continues his listening tour of all seven city school districts.
Three-campus deal will keep Cohen in place, give Booker T. Washington to KIPP
KIPP expected to finance a K-8 campus elsewhere on its own, freeing money to rebuild Cohen.
KIPP passes measure to take on debt for construction if RSD comes through with land
Live blog tonight: Schools chief visits West Bank for town hall meeeting
City makes fitful progress in repairing school-zone caution lights
Drive by a school zone light at random in the city of New Orleans on a weekday and there’s about a 50 percent chance it works. And that’s an improvement. The number of broken lights has slowly dropped in three field surveys by The Lens, but the city hasn’t come close to repairing them all, as a city official promised in July.
Superintendent of Orleans Parish schools begins series of community meetings
Parents and other community members invited tonight to 6 p.m. event at Audubon Charter School.
