Charter School Board
Educators for Quality Alternatives
The Net Charter High School to use grants to add special-education services
Grants and revenue uptick will enhance services for The Net special-needs students
Students polled on attitudes toward faculty and peers at The NET alternative high
The NET braces for new state standards to evaluate alternative high schools
At a meeting on March 6 in Baton Rouge, the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education was scheduled to approve a new system for evaluating alternative high schools in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. Educators for Quality Alternatives, the board that runs The NET, an alternative charter high school, discussed the framework at their February meeting.
$200G from casino to target psych services, homebound students, career coordinator
State flags standardized test problems at 17 New Orleans schools in 2012-13
Directors of The NET ponder ways to spend surplus funds; academic improvement noted
NET school trying to deal with slaying of students
NET school and board look to future
NET school reviews new policy for alternative schools
Speech about how educators can reach troubled students hits home for principal
Cost of busing students in New Orleans rises as parents exercise school choice
It will cost $30 million to bring students to and from public schools this year, compared to $18 million the year before Katrina. The increase appears to be a consequence of citywide enrollment and the shift from a centrally-run school system. A few schools are working together to negotiate busing contracts.
NET Charter gets $250,000 grant
Audubon and two other schools mistakenly billed for water
Check here for Orleans public schools’ opening days
NET students get to spend some time this summer in the great outdoors
The NET leaders decide against taking on program for overage middle school students
Mystery school could get closing Pride College Prep’s leftover charter school money
The NET holds public budget hearing tonight at 6 p.m.
NET High leaders hash out details of possible expansion to serve overage middle schoolers
RSD asks NET High to take on struggling, overage middle school students
NET Charter preps for state’s new charter school accountability project
NET Charter leaders seek a fair way to grade alternative schools
NET High students improve on state grad exam, Ostberg says
NET Charter board meeting agenda released
BESE reviews capital projects, Early Head Start monitoring
Construction of four new schoolhouses should be completed as classes resume in August, education officials announced Wednesday night, but modular buildings are ready just in case. Capital projects, including ground-up school construction, highlighted Wednesday night’s meeting in New Orleans of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.