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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.

‘A very big rain event’: Mayor Cantrell warns that Hurricane Sally will impact New Orleans despite more favorable projections

Hurricane Sally's track has shifted east, but city should still brace for effects.
by Michael Isaac Stein September 14, 2020 Updated September 14, 2020

City, NOLA public schools to remain in phase two, as rest of state moves into phase three

Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the state will move to phase 3 Friday, but details were limited.
by Marta Jewson September 10, 2020 Updated December 18, 2020

Schools forge ahead with reopening, but watching data closely after Labor Day crowds

Pre-kindergarten through fourth grade students will return to public schools Sept. 14 through Sept. 25.
by Marta Jewson September 8, 2020 Updated September 8, 2020

Emails: 25 school employees at 19 New Orleans public schools have tested positive for coronavirus over summer

The NOLA Public Schools district is set to begin its phased in-person reopening in a little over a week.
by Marta Jewson September 4, 2020 Updated September 4, 2020

‘We’re looking at a lot of new homeless people’: Service providers report growing number of people on street as pandemic drags on

A recent survey by Unity of Greater New Orleans found the number of homeless people was more than four times its previous estimate a few months ago.
by Michael Isaac Stein September 2, 2020 Updated September 8, 2020

NOLA Public Schools collects first round of virtual attendance

The district will monitor attendance to see if a system-wide intervention is necessary.
by Marta Jewson September 1, 2020 Updated September 2, 2020

NOLA Public Schools will reopen to youngest students as city continues to see promising case numbers

Students in fifth grade and older will continue learning virtually until October.
by Marta Jewson August 28, 2020 Updated December 18, 2020

Disasters are driving a mental health crisis

From climate-fueled storms to COVID-19, mounting catastrophes are sowing stress and trauma. The country’s one program to help reaches only a fraction of survivors.
by Dean Russell and Jamie Smith Hopkins, Columbia Journalism Investigations and Center for Public Integrity August 25, 2020 Updated August 24, 2020

City Council advances proposal to cut library tax funding by 40 percent, claiming that the cut will come ‘without detriment to the library system’

The proposal would go before voters in the Dec. 5 election.
by Michael Isaac Stein August 20, 2020 Updated October 27, 2020

Proposed law seeks to bring public defender funding closer to DA’s

DA candidate Williams’ sponsored legislation would require that the city gives the defenders 85 percent of what it gives prosecutors
by Nick Chrastil August 17, 2020 Updated October 27, 2020

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