Aubri Juhasz
Communities and Families Reporter, Gulf States NewsroomAubri Juhasz covers communities and families for the Gulf States Newsroom. She also helps edit WWNO's and WRKF's education coverage.
Previously, she covered education for WWNO, focusing on New Orleans' charter schools, school funding and other statewide issues.
She has also been an education reporter for WHYY Public Radio in Philadelphia and hosted the station’s award-winning podcast Schooled. 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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Nearly everything costs more this summer, from groceries to gas. But families still need childcare or just want to send their kids to camp. -
New Orleans public schools were among the most improved in the state, extending the district’s upward trajectory. -
In the Gulf South, “school choice” programs have promised parents more options. But implementation issues and possible harm to public schools have some worried. -
Education advocates had sued to block the plan but dropped their case Tuesday, citing “uncertain prospects for success.” -
U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and Jamie Davis, a row-crop farmer in Tensas Parish, won their party runoffs Saturday and will now face off for Bill Cassidy’s U.S. Senate seat in November. -
Republican state Rep. Stephanie Hilferty and current BESE board member Joseph Cao both won their runoff races in Saturday's election. -
The judge’s 11-day restraining order forbids Landry from using the money and from continuing to collect ballots from lawmakers who previously had until Tuesday to vote on the order. -
The storm dumped rain across the region — some areas saw 6 to 9 inches in a matter of hours. -
The Louisiana Department of Education estimates the stipends will cost school systems anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in funding, depending on the number of employees. -
Rather than add money to the budget, like in recent years, the governor is asking lawmakers to cut $168 million from schools’ budgets.
