Five charter organizations have meetings this week and could take up the issue.
Charter School
Lafayette Academy Charter School
Governed by Choice Foundation
Report Card Grade
C
Grades Served
Pre-K - 8Enrollment
902 (Feb. 2016)School Performance Score
2016: 80.8Previous School Performance Score
2015: 89.6State releases elementary and middle-school standardized test scores
Choice Foundation vs. KIPP: Who will get to take over management of Dunbar Elementary?
Choice Foundation jilted in bid to take over former Dunbar Elementary campus
Choice still waiting for answer from state about why it didn’t get new campus
Choice Foundation changes how grades are averaged to better reflect Common Core
Refusal to return charter schools to OPSB sign of distrust of locally elected boards
Lafayette Academy to stay with Recovery School District
More charter schools now eligible to join Orleans Parish School Board, but will any take the leap?
Charter boards overseeing 17 schools must decide by the end of the year if they want to move from the Recovery School District to the Orleans Parish School Board. But there are still reasons for schools to stay put, such as funding issues and concerns about the management and leadership of the local school system.
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Lack of social services affecting schools, board member says
Lafayette Academy to miss out on FEMA money
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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Choice Foundation re-elects entire board in meeting without public notice
Check here for Orleans public schools’ opening days
Choice board approves mid-year budget cuts and prepares to cut $1.2 million from personnel in 2013-14
Choice leaders halt plans to move to church as renovation turns to ‘unmitigated mess’
Choice Foundation plans lawsuit over facilities contract
Choice Foundation investigated cheating accusation at Lafayette Academy
Officials at Lafayette Academy charter school, whose academic scores have more than doubled in the past five years, acknowledged investigating a cheating allegation on the state’s annual standardized test earlier this year, but decided it was unsubstantiated. It’s hard to know what happened, however, because the school board has refused to provide details.
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Disruptive students expelled; RSD and city offer "no help" on safety issues
At its monthly board meeting the Choice Foundation unanimously voted to remain under the Recovery School District and not return to the Orleans Parish School Board at the end of the 2012–13 school year. The Choice board governs Lafayette Academy, which was one of more than a dozen schools eligible to move under the oversight of the Orleans Parish School Board following a period of academic improvement.
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Landry leery of OPSB governance; termites delay move to Canal Street offices
Money, control and perception are keys as charters consider switch to Orleans Parish School Board
From left, Martin Behrman, Arthur Ashe and KIPP Believe are three campuses that are likely to be eligible to return to the oversight of the Orleans Parish School Board, above. Photo by Jessica Williams
Several more independent charter school leaders soon will find themselves facing a question that several others, including Sophie B. Wright Charter School’s principal, have been grappling with for more than a year: Should we move back under the wing of the Orleans Parish School Board?
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Questions arise in handover of power over McDonogh 42 Elementary
As president of the Tremé Charter School Association’s board of directors, Roslyn Smith is used to overseeing the faculty and staff of McDonogh 42, an open enrollment, public charter school educating students from Pre-Kindergarten through eighth grade with almost 450 students an enrollment in 2011-2012 of 527 students. But as of July 1, she found herself in charge of only a skeleton staff managing the handover of the school to another charter school management organization, the Choice Foundation.
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Choice Foundation board discusses plans to take over McDonogh 42
Choice Foundation, the charter management organization that currently runs Lafayette Academy and Esperanza Charter schools, discussed its takeover of McDonogh 42 at its June 29 board meeting. Choice’s Executive Director Mickey Landry cautioned the board that the upcoming year would be one of “massive change.”
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Choice School budget documents
Choice Foundation’s $18.5M budget represents the addition of McDonogh 42
McDonogh 42 delays move until 2013; test score results show gains
McDonogh 42 Elementary Charter School, the Choice Foundation’s soon-to-be acquired charter, will remain at its current location for the 2012-2013 school year, the Choice Foundation’s board announced at a second May gathering. McDonogh will be under the control of its current charter operator, the Treme Charter School Association, until July.
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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.
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2012-13 budget available for review
Violence and gang activity draw board's attention; McDonogh 42 takeover stalls
By Yomi Akinyemi, The Lens charter school reporter |
A recent spate of violence that claimed the lives of two students at a nearby school was a focus of the Choice Foundation’s monthly board meeting on May 2. Principal Mickey Landry said the killing of the two students from KIPP Believe, blocks away from Lafayette, mirror escalating violence around the community in the past few months.
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Esperanza principal ousted; McDonogh 42 move may be delayed; teacher bonuses approved
Choice Foundation, the charter management organization set to take over McDonogh 42, has asked the Recovery School District to delay a scheduled move to a new campus, from January 2013 to June 2013. Fran Trujillo, McDonogh 42’s principal-to-be, said relocating the school four months after Choice’s takeover would be disruptive.
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Programs for non-English speakers detailed; Mc42 takeover proceeds despite charter fight
Board approved to take over two additional schools, but delays final decision
Choice Foundation, operators of Lafayette Academy and Esperanza Charter School, has been approved to charter two more schools, McDonogh 42 and a yet to be named school in Jefferson Parish, the Choice board of directors said at their monthly meeting, Feb.1. Board President James Huger said that while the foundation has been given the “all clear” to take over McDonogh 42, there’s a slim chance the deal might collapse if the school’s current board sues the state Board of Elementary & Secondary Education, as threatened.
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Lafayette accorded national citation; board plots film, theater and television school
Choice Foundation releases meeting agenda
Principal warns that tougher tests are coming and state must play catch-up; teachers lauded
Repercussions of the newly adopted Common Core State Standards Initiative dominated discussion at the October board meeting of Choice Foundation, which operates Lafayette Academy and Esperanza Charter School. “I expect our test scores, the state’s test scores, to go down,” Lafayette principal Mickey Landry said.