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This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.

To ensure students on track to graduate, NOLA Public Schools will require high schools to turn over details on course offerings

The trend in the district’s increased oversight comes one year after half the class of John F. Kennedy High School learned — after graduation — they had not been eligible for diplomas.
by Marta Jewson July 8, 2020 Updated July 8, 2020

Positive monitors’ report could mean end to federal oversight of special education in New Orleans, but civil rights group says that’s premature

Plaintiffs’ attorneys in the five-year-old consent decree case say the point of oversight was to ensure better delivery of special education services. In spite of a ‘substantial compliance’ finding, they’re not confident New Orleans’ schools have achieved that.
by Marta Jewson July 6, 2020 Updated July 6, 2020

‘Text me!’ Mayor’s new direct-text service is run by her campaign, raising questions about how data is being used

Cantrell recently urged residents to text about a city commission, but the texts are not going to the city government.
by Michael Isaac Stein July 1, 2020 Updated July 1, 2020

Schools can start providing special education help now to make up for COVID-19 closures, state says

State wants local officials to prepare to provide compensatory services for students affected by statewide school closures.
by Marta Jewson July 1, 2020 Updated July 1, 2020

Evictions resume in New Orleans

In first day of eviction hearings at First City Court after three-month suspension, judge urges landlords to give their tenants some extra time.
by Michael Isaac Stein June 29, 2020 Updated June 29, 2020

State Department of Education releases guidelines on reopening schools

What school actually looks like will depend on how far along the state is in its reopening process.
by Marta Jewson June 25, 2020 Updated June 25, 2020

Racial reckoning at the Ace Hotel, Krewe and other local businesses sparked by Black Lives Matter movement, coronavirus and social media

Former and current workers from the Ace accused the company of using the identities of its Black and LGBTQ employees to sell their brand, while standing idle as employees were harassed and held back over those very same identities.
by Michael Isaac Stein June 23, 2020 Updated June 24, 2020

The Section G Project Part 4: The Legacy

The final story in our series on the life and career of New Orleans Judge Frank Shea.
by Nick Chrastil June 19, 2020 Updated June 19, 2020

Council grills NOPD chief on use of tear gas on protesters

Ferguson struggles to answer questions about what danger the march posed as he maintains that blocking it was the right move.
by Michael Isaac Stein June 11, 2020 Updated June 13, 2020

Police release body cam footage from expressway clash with protesters

Video released after criticism for use of tear gas, projectiles.
by Charles Maldonado June 10, 2020 Updated June 10, 2020

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