A common enrollment process for Orleans Parish School Board charters? Eventually, the local board decided Tuesday night. The conversation surrounding common enrollment Tuesday night was dominated by confusion on all sides. Here’s what happened: Board members seemed ready to approve the proposed policy, which mandated that all charters participate in a common enrollment process by […]
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Lycée parents complain to BESE about pricey fees for tutoring
Parents complained today before the state’s top education board that they had to pay a $250 application fee to enroll their children in Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orleans, the French-immersion charter school, and upwards of $150 a week to get them extra tutoring. They also complained to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education that […]
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Ethics board: Kira Orange Jones can stay on BESE, run TFA
State school board member Kira Orange Jones will continue to serve after the Louisiana Board of Ethics ruled this morning that there’s no conflict of interest with her working as executive director of a nonprofit that contracts with the board. Jones runs the Greater New Orleans office of Teach For America, which frequently enters into […]
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Interview with OPSB's Thomas Robichaux: Looking beyond school system's past
Thomas Robichaux Thomas Robichaux, 43, a former city attorney who now works as a lawyer for a gaming distribution company, ran in 2008 as a reform candidate for a seat on the Orleans Parish School Board and today is its president. Few dispute that change was sorely needed. For years the city school system had […]
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Recovery School District centralizes expulsion process in bid for equity at all 66 schools
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | To make expulsion hearings more equitable for Recovery School District students, the state-run agency will coordinate hearings at its 66 New Orleans schools through a central office. The RSD Expulsion Hearing Office, once responsible for conducting hearings only at schools the district runs directly, will now oversee […]
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Sagging grades likely to shutter Sojourner Truth Academy
School officials said Tuesday night that they’re preparing to dissolve the three-year-old charter campus, even before state educators reveal recommendations on whether it deserves an extension.