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 flagship news program, All Things Considered. She is from New York and lives in the Marigny. You can reach her at aubri@wwno.org.
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New Orleans’ school board will dip into its savings a second time to lessen the impact of the district’s $50 million deficit. -
After implementing cost-cutting measures, Johnson expects a balanced budget for the year ahead. -
Funding for early education in Louisiana doesn’t appear to be in jeopardy this year, but advocates want last year’s cuts to be reversed. -
Louisiana lawmakers are asking Congress to bring back a federal program that helped schools buy food from local farms. -
While last fall’s $50 million deficit was a surprise, district officials have told charter leaders to plan for lower-than-usual funding again next school year. -
The board picked its interim head over Sharon Latten-Clark, a longtime local charter school leader. -
Interim superintendent Fateama Fulmore and local charter leader Sharon Latten-Clark were unanimously advanced during a meeting Tuesday.
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Left off the list of semifinalists was Ashonta Wyatt, a local education consultant and former principal, whom dozens of people publicly asked the board to consider for superintendent. -
The board approved the plan at its meeting Thursday. Officials warn closing the remaining $25 million gap will be more challenging. -
The City of New Orleans won't have to pay a $90 million settlement to its school board, though it does have to honor the first payment, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
