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The NOLA Public Schools district earned its first B letter grade since the schools returned to the district’s control in 2018, after being seized from the Orleans Parish School Board in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and run for years by the state. The Louisiana Department of Education released its 2025 school ratings, in the [...]Read More... from Compare 2025 school performance scores for New Orleans charters
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If parents notice their child struggling academically or facing more discipline in school, it may be time for a special education evaluation. Roughly 15% of students in Louisiana have special education plans. [...]Read More... from Back to school: How and when to ask for a special education evaluation
3 months ago
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Bernard Smith and Katy Reckdahl on the men trapped in the Orleans Parish Prison and Broad Street Bridge in the wake of the levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina that flooded New Orleans. [...]Read More... from Episode 282: Orleans Parish Prison after the storm ‘We’re still in here’
4 months ago
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The ups and downs within the John McDonogh High School building illustrate the persistent inequities of New Orleans public schools [...]Read More... from The long arc of John McDonogh Senior High School
4 months ago
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This year, LEAP scores came back from the state of Louisiana in record time. Do parents understand the scores? Do kids? Now, the state begins to crunch school statistics to create School Performance Scores, which could lead to charter-school closures later this fall.
5 months ago
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A state law passed last year required cities to share a portion of school-zone camera tickets with the schools themselves. But the City of New Orleans and local schools have not yet agreed on how to split the money.
6 months ago
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It’s unclear how the school’s order affected the student, who did return, but sporadically. But the school district sent Fannie C. Williams administrators a serious ‘notice of noncompliance’ in the case, which is still under investigation.
6 months ago
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Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third graders are still struggling from their Zoom-heavy start to reading.
7 months ago
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Parents said that their young child was too sick to go to school. But the school disagreed, and so the child received no services last year, then started this year with no services. It’s still unclear who’s to blame — and how to catch other students before they fall through the cracks.
7 months ago
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Over the past five months, as the two parties negotiated, charter leaders have been tightening belts and hoping that the city will finally agree to hand over 100% of property-tax money to schools, instead of skimming away millions each year.
8 months ago
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Given that mistake, parents question whether the school is financially ready to repair McDonogh 15 in the French Quarter.
9 months ago
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