Public hearing on next year’s budgets set for 5 p.m. June 30.
Charter School
Edna Karr High School
Governed by InspireNOLA
Report Card Grade
A
Grades Served
9-12School Performance Score
2016: 106.9Previous School Performance Score
2015: 111.1InspireNOLA group to add two executive directors as it bids for third school
InspireNOLA ponders taking on administrative duties performed by Algiers charter group
Board renews contracts with Karr, Harte school leaders; enrollments rising
Algiers charter group holding public hearing about return to school board oversight
Karr, Harte enrollment is higher than expected
Karr rebuilding plans move forward
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.
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Karr, Harte schools have more students than they predicted
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Two Algiers schools see enrollment above projections
State documents detail standardized test cheating, irregularities at New Orleans schools
In three recent testing years, 33 public schools have been flagged for problems and possible cheating on standardized tests — 12 more than once. A testing expert says these irregularities indicate cheating by teachers and administrators, who have a lot riding on their students’ performance.
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New board of directors readies to take over two Algiers charter schools
Leaders say testing gains will qualify F-rated McDonogh #32 and Fischer for charter renewals
Algiers leaders try to bridge divide between Walker and Landry students prior to merger
Walker and Landry merger opponents air frustrations before BESE members
Algiers charter board rejects schools’ return to OPSB
The Algiers Charter Schools Association voted 5-2 Thursday night to keep three schools under Recovery School District jurisdiction, despite months of pleas from many in those school communities to let them go. Improved student test scores at O. Perry Walker High School, Martin Berhman Elementary and Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary made the schools eligible return to Orleans Parish School Board oversight rather than being part of the Recovery School District.
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Will board say yes or no to Orleans Parish School Board control?
The Algiers Charter Schools Association board is poised to vote tomorrow on whether or not to recommend three schools return to Orleans Parish School Board control. Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy, Martin Behrman Elementary School and O. Perry Walker Senior High School are each eligible to leave the Recovery School District due to their students’ improved performance on the state’s standardized tests.
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Details of Walker-Landry merger don't alleviate critics' concerns
More than 100 L.B. Landry and O. Perry Walker students, alumni, and parents met with representatives of the Algiers Charter School Association again Wednesday night to discuss a potential plan for a merger of the two West Bank high schools. It was the latest in a series of public forums the ACSA is hosting to receive input on two major changes facing the Walker community and came four days after officials released more details about what a merged school would look like.
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Behrman and Walker firmly oppose continued RSD oversight
Group unveils Walker-Landry merger plan details
A committee tasked with crafting the fall 2013 merger of two Algiers neighborhood high schools faced heated opposition from both school communities again Saturday during a public forum held to lay out a unification plan for O. Perry Walker and L.B. Landry high schools. Saturday’s forum at Behrman Elementary School was one of several community meetings the Algiers Charter Schools Association has planned in response to the Recovery School District’s controversial November 2011 decision to house both Walker and Landry students at a new $54 million facility starting in August of next year.
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Walker community to ACSA board: Let us go and leave us alone
Algiers Charter Schools board meeting cancelled
ACSA interim CEO pledges improved communication
Algiers Charter Schools Association interim CEO Adrian Morgan presented a plan for improved communication, collaboration, and coordination at the association’s board meeting Thursday night at Algiers Technology Academy. Morgan, who has been on the job for only 14 days, pointed to meetings with community groups, parents, and staff as a key to overcoming the strained relationships the charter organization has faced in recent months.
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Association board reviews school budgets; final numbers hinge on enrollment
Spending cuts to counter drop in revenues; slight budget surplus projected
Despite $5.7 million less in federal funding, the Algiers Charter School Association forecasts a budget surplus for the 2012-13 school year, in contrast to its $1.3 million budget deficit in 2011-12. Most of the decline in federal revenues stems from diminished Title 1 funding and an expired Teacher Incentive Grant.
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Algiers Charter Schools Association releases prospective 2012-13 budgets
Association schools face slide in revenues as budgets are released for public review
Concerned about personnel issues, protesters mass at closed board meeting
As the Algiers Charter School Association board met behind closed doors Thursday night, a crowd of parents, teachers, and students gathered to protest controversial staffing changes. Some in the crowd at the school association’s central office were protesting the fate of O. Perry Walker principal Mary Laurie, who faces transfer to the failing Algiers Technical Academy.
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ACSA puts controversial personnel moves on hold after crowd chants: “Raza must go”
More than 300 members of the Algiers community gathered at the McDonogh 32 Literacy Charter School to speak out against recent firings and the transfer of successful principals to failing schools within the charter organization. A call and response chant of “Raza must go” and “erase the board” came following the end of an unofficial public comment section and disrupted the regularly scheduled Algiers Charter School Association board meeting Thursday, June 28.
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Orleans Parish School Board raises concerns over terminated employees in Algiers Charter Schools system
The first round of cuts has surfaced from the Algiers Charter School Association’s bid to improve student performance by terminating and moving around principals, and so far, it’s not only principals who’ve been targeted. At least one termination, at Edna Karr High School, is in violation of the Orleans Parish School Board’s contract with the charter school group, School Board officials say.
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Interim CEO and academic officer named – to mixed response; enrollment rises
Algiers Charter Schools Association’s board has approved Stuart Gay, the association’s chief financial officer, to serve as interim chief executive officer of the charter management organization, succeeding Andrea Thomas-Reynolds who did not seek to renew her contract. The board’s action, at its May 23 monthly meeting, was greeted with applause from the audience.
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Optional retirement program approved for teachers and staff; Karr and Harte remain in fold
Trustees of the Algiers Charter School Association have approved the Hartman Group as provider of the optional 403(b) retirement program for school employees. The approval, at the board’s monthly meeting, April 26, followed a state attorney general’s opinion earlier in the week that the Louisiana Constitution precludes charter schools from leaving the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana.
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New formula keeps more dollars in schools; ACSA to manage Karr, Harte through next year
The Algiers Charter School Association board met March 22 to discuss a new formula for capping the administrative fee it retains from state funds awarded to the schools it manages. Under the previous formula, the association’s central office could retain up to 8.65 percent of a school’s Minimum Foundation Program allocation (the per-student amount allotted by the state) plus the school’s “special revenues,” such as teacher incentive funds and the like.
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Amid benefits uncertainties, board tells staff: We're not going to leave you in the lurch
Correction: This story has been corrected to reflect the fact that board president Cassandra Bookman did not say the quote previously attributed to her. It has also been amended and corrected to reflect key points about teachers retirement benefits.
The Algiers Charter School Association met Tuesday night with a crowd of about 100 parents, teachers, and community members to discuss the transition to new management of both Alice M. Harte Elementary and Edna Karr High School.
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Teachers fight layoffs as board targets deficits
Just outside the gates of the navy base that was formerly a pillar of the Algiers neighborhood, teachers wonder what their future might be in a rapidly changing school system. The Algiers Charter School Association, which now runs eight schools in the community, is looking to cut 30 positions to keep a balanced budget and could end participation in the state retirement system, starting next fall.