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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.
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.
With new contract, state starts process of creating new standardized test for spring
Department of Education picks longtime testing company for contract valued at $3.1 million.
New Orleans College Prep opening Head Start program, may grow into Hoffman elementary
Parents won’t get first Common Core test results until November
School Board attorney takes issue with property opinion from charter’s lawyer
Lycee Francais board and counsel were considering a plan to have a third party buy Priestly site.
Plessy Community School buys Hansberry site
As a Type 1 charter, school is responsible for getting its own facility.
Saving the art of teaching from the science of education
Modern educators are taking Taylorism off the assembly line and applying it to the classroom.
Foundation Prep attracts enough students to make it through first year, board told
Only 16 students were registered when doors opened last month. The student body is now at 38.
