Aubri Juhasz
Editor, Education ReporterAubri Juhasz covers education, focusing on New Orleans' charter schools, school funding and other statewide issues. She also helps edit the station’s news coverage.
Previously, she was an education reporter for WHYY Public Radio in Philadelphia and hosted the station’s award-winning podcast Schooled. Before that, she covered education in New Orleans for WWNO. A graduate of Barnard College, Juhasz got her start as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered. You can reach her at aubri@wwno.org.
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Rather than add money to the budget, like in recent years, the governor is asking lawmakers to cut $168 million from schools’ budgets. -
Fateama Fulmore recently finished her first full school year as head of New Orleans’ public schools. -
Jeanette Weiland, who joined UNO’s leadership in March, will serve as interim chancellor and chief administrative officer. -
While the state’s largest teachers' unions supported Amendment 3 on the May 16 ballot, some educators opposed the measure, and some union affiliates remained neutral as a result. -
A high school in the Bywater focused on coastal restoration and sustainability is set to close this summer. It leaves a unique legacy. -
A bipartisan bill that would make it easier for parents in Louisiana to win special education disputes has the full backing of the House education committee. -
A federal judge has ended more than a decade of special education monitoring in New Orleans, meant to address issues stemming from the city’s charter system.
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Almost a dozen New Orleans charter schools are working together, led by the district, for the first time to better support students with special needs. -
Most of the changes are to arts and education degrees, according to a press release. The university says less than 2% of students will be affected, and faculty members will be moved to other programs. -
Under the proposal, public schools would receive $147 per student — almost a 50% bump — to put toward specific expenses.
