This week, as the Living School moves toward its final graduation, the Class of 2024 mourns the closure of their unique high school — and explains why it mattered.
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Posted inCriminal Justice
Paying sheriffs to keep the kids
‘State dollars attached to each juvenile’ would allow sheriffs to build more local juvenile-detention centers, then get paid to keep kids who are placed in state custody. Is the state paying to keep kids closer to home or incentivizing people to put kids in jail?
Posted inSchools
On the heels of staff non-renewals, Lycée Français teachers win union vote
The win came shortly after a group of teachers were not offered contracts for the next school year, a move that some saw as an unfair effort to undermine the union drive – and possibly jeopardize the integrity of Lycée Français for years to come.
Posted inSchools
Conditions d’emploi: unionizing at Lycée Français
After Lycée Français teachers began working toward a union, demanding better working conditions, the school’s CEO warned that a union could change the school’s culture. But to the school’s French national teachers, unions are central to the very culture the school emulates.
Posted inIn the N.O.
Fess: The SongByrd of N.O.
As a vinyl .45 record that reads ‘Atlantic’ flips onto a record player, the piano in the background grows louder and more energetic, punctuated by drums and horns. Then here comes the signature whistling that every New Orleans kid recognizes — it’s from the Professor Longhair song, “Go to the Mardi Gras.” Longhair died in […]
Posted inEnvironment
LSU’s fossil-fuel partnerships
At Louisiana’s flagship university, oil companies can influence research and coursework for a price. One critic described the industry votes on research agendas, as described in the boilerplate document, as “an egregious violation of academic freedom.”
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Thousands of food-stamp recipients may face stricter work requirements
In Louisiana, one of the nation’s most impoverished states, recipients could easily lose food stamps through the work-requirement red tape, advocates say. The sponsoring legislator says that “work provides lasting value we can give back to our families, our community, and God.”
Posted inEnvironment
Greenfield wins in St. John, for the moment
After the parish council granted heavy-industrial zoning to Greenfield Louisiana for its grain terminal, Greenfield’s legal counsel thanked supporters for enduring a lengthy legal back-and-forth. But the Banner sisters, founders of The Descendants Project, pledged that the battle would continue.
Posted inEnvironment
St. John the Baptist Council could sanction ‘dangerous formula’
While a judge ruled it was too early to block rezoning for the Greenfield Grain Terminal, neighbors fear that the parish council could sanction what one advocate called a “dangerous formula” used in the rezoning plan. That formula, she said, could expose Wallace, and the entire parish, to encroachment by industrial developers.
Posted inSchools
Let the bargaining begin
In a Tuesday letter to Tulane University president Michael A. Fitts, a group of non-tenured faculty asked him to recognize their new union, Tulane Workers United. An election is likely in early May.