Aubri Juhasz
Editor, Education ReporterAubri Juhasz covers K-12 education, focusing on charter schools, education 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’ first direct-run school in nearly two decades cleared an important hurdle this week: Enrolling enough students.
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While the numbers don’t show as much growth as the last two years, students maintained recent gains.
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If the plan succeeds, it would exacerbate segregation and be a serious financial blow to Baton Rouge’s already struggling schools.
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A wealthy Baton Rouge neighborhood has become its own city in order to try to create a new school district. Some residents call the move modern day segregation.
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State leaders decided again this year to not give teachers a permanent pay raise, opting for a one-time stipend instead. Many agree that educators are underpaid, but point to Louisiana’s looming deficit.
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With her graduation just days away, a student reporter at Tulane University reflects on a semester that ended in war protests and a college experience that began with a global pandemic.
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The heavily amended bill passed largely along party lines, with four Republicans joining Democrats to oppose it.
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Gov. Jeff Landry made his appeal directly at two town halls, urging parents to push their local senators to pass a bill that creates universal “education savings accounts.”
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Israel's war in Gaza is still front and center on New Orleans' college campuses, where students continue to advocate for a ceasefire even as the semester ends.
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Xavier University of Louisiana canceled Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s commencement speech Wednesday, following pushback over the U.S. ambassador’s voting record on a ceasefire in Gaza.