Aubri Juhasz
Interim News Director, Education ReporterAubri Juhasz covers K-12 education, focusing on charter schools, education funding, and other statewide issues. She also helps edit the station’s audio stories.
Previously, she was an education reporter for WHYY Public Radio in Philadelphia and hosted the station’s 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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The play Roe, based on the Supreme Court case, was recently performed in Louisiana, where abortion is now severely restricted.
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An updated version of the 2016 play is being staged in an unexpected place — the capitol of a state with a near-total abortion ban. -
Air quality in areas along the river was ranked “moderate” for level of concern Friday morning, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. Since then, the smoke has somewhat dissipated.
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Many New Orleans schools will start late Tuesday, and a few will close completely, as smoke and fog are expected to make driving hazardous for a second morning.
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Louisiana Considered host Bob Pavlovich spoke to Chris Dier, a history teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, about his approach.
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Following a first-of-its-kind confirmation process, New Orleans City Council voted Thursday to confirm Mayor LaToya Cantrell's pick to lead the city's police department.
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St. Bernard Parish is no longer expected to be affected by the saltwater wedge moving up the Mississippi River, joining its upriver neighbors.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says salt levels should be within the safe-drinking threshold set by the Environmental Protection Agency when — and if — the wedge reaches New Orleans.
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According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ latest projections, released Thursday, the “saltwater wedge” isn’t forecast to reach New Orleans’ west bank until late November — a month later than earlier projections suggested.
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Exactly which steps schools will need to take — and when — is still unclear, as city, state and federal agencies race to get ahead of the saltwater wedge.
