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Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans’ public schools have faced scrutiny and increased oversight for failing to provide adequate services to eligible students. Now, the district is trying to address the first problem by changing its funding formula to allocate more money to schools that serve special education students.
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In a state that has some of the strictest graduation requirements in the country, New Orleans educators are challenging Louisiana to rethink its standards and offer an alternate graduation pathway to recently arrived immigrants.
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Newly elected school board members sat for their first slate of meetings this week, probing district priorities ahead of this year’s charter application…
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It’s been a busy week for the Orleans Parish School Board. During its last two meetings of the year, members rejected tax exemptions for the Folger’s…
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New Orleans’ school board was largely undecided Wednesday morning after candidates in five of seven races failed to receive more than 50 percent of the…
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With traditional truancy enforcement suspended, New Orleans public schools are working to develop new procedures to identify and engage with chronically…
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The Orleans Parish School Board selected Grisela Jaskon as an interim member following a vote at Thursday’s meeting. It also approved a proposal to…
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NOLA Public Schools Superintendent Henderson Lewis’ decision to overhaul management at two charter schools became final Thursday night. After hours of…
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Orleans Parish school officials are bemoaning yet another drop in the district's standardized test scores. When you look across all grade levels and…
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The first black high school in New Orleans, McDonogh 35, was a source of pride, until the chartering of the city’s schools after Hurricane Katrina…