With funding uncertainties exacerbated by coronavirus, public defenders hopeful for permanent statewide solutions
Legislators appear open to changing ‘user-pay’ funding system for criminal justice.
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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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
