The link between lead poisoning and crime is a mystery that none of the usual hypotheses — such as “get tough” police laws — can explain.
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Posted inOpinion, Schools
Zack Kopplin speaks for science and the nation takes notice—will Louisiana?
Says Moseley: The real issue is public money being used to support sham science. Doubting evolution is fine on your own time or in religion class, perhaps.
Posted inInside the News Room
Now in our fourth year, The Lens has new website, office, funding
A site that’s easier to view on phones and tablets, a new daily news roundup, more than $1 million in new pledges.
Posted inOpinion, Schools
Memo to charters: Steal, pirate, plagiarize the private school playbook
Private prep school have forged many of secondary education’s “best practices.” Folwell Dunbar says the best public charter schools are smart to be copycats.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Investigations
Company with family, political ties does big business with OPSO
Metro Business Supplies has done $1.7 million in business with the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office since Hurricane Katrina. The man who landed the job, Richard Schlaudecker, is married to the daughter of Chief Deputy Gerald Ursin.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Opinion
Nagin’s weird ride: from showboat to search for anonymity
“Simply put, the Ray Nagin of 2013 is almost unrecognizable as the man who swept New Orleans off its feet in 2002,” writes Gordon Russell.
Posted inCharter Schools
Four school moves leaves Moton parents eager for permanent site
Students at Robert Russa Moton Charter School need a permanent school.
That was the message several parents and teachers delivered to Moton’s governing board during its quarterly meeting Jan. 16.
Posted inCharter Schools
Students’ food and shelter among Lagniappe board concerns
With nearly all of its 130 students qualifying for the federally funded free and reduced price lunch program, Lagniappe Academies this year entered into a contract with Revolution Food to provide fresh foods and whole grains to a population of children that often go without.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Jindal gaining reputation for punishing those who stand in his way
One October evening at the Chimes restaurant in Baton Rouge, former Gov. Kathleen Blanco leaned across the table to Robert Mann. “You do have tenure, don’t you?” Mann, a communications professor at Louisiana State University, gets that ominous question just about every day. Mann does indeed have tenure, meaning LSU officials cannot terminate him without […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Investigations, Schools
School music programs, marching bands staging post-Katrina comeback
Sitting still doesn’t come naturally to a lot of kids. Getting students to sit still long enough to learn is often the teachers’ hardest job. But weeks before school officially began at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology, eager students sat for hours at a time, practicing their horns under […]