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 Harmony High’s board of directors voted last month to surrender the school’s charter when it expires in June. -
We learn about klezmer music from a local band, and some of New Orleans' most beloved musicians share their favorite Christmas songs. -
The board was scheduled to vote on one of three options, including ceasing operations at the Leah Chase School at the end of the school year. -
With New Orleans' school board set to decide the school's fate at its Thursday night meeting, parents and some members of the Chase family are asking the board to believe in the school. -
The Southern Poverty Law Center of Louisiana and other advocacy groups are asking school leaders in the greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas to offer remote learning while federal agents are in the region. -
Darwin was one of more than 5,200 students in Jefferson Parish who missed school after federal agents arrived in New Orleans on Dec. 3. -
Typically, a few schools lose their charters due to low performance or financial issues. But this year, 14 out of 15 up for renewal qualified for extensions. -
New Orleans’ only direct-run school is facing a deficit in its second year, and board members are debating whether to shut it down. -
Federal agencies say they aren’t targeting schools, but parents and teachers are worried now that Biden-era protections are gone. -
Most schools across the state could see their performance scores fall when Louisiana’s new accountability system takes effect this spring. New Orleans, as a district, could fall to a C, based on simulated scores.
