Innovative RSD planning process enters final month: public weighs in on...
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | More transparency, more equity, and greater levels of commitment to non-charter schools were among requests from community members at a public task force...
View ArticleVAYLA study reveals student concerns about quality of education at six city...
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | Those with the greatest stake in the city’s educational system – its students – came together today with criticisms and recommendations for reform. In what...
View ArticleOPEN plans community forum on education
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | In culmination of a yearlong effort to get community members to engage in education issues, the Orleans Public Education Network is hosting a roundtable...
View ArticleSojourner Truth charter gets one-two punch; teachers leaving before doors...
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | Citing discontent with the current administration, at least five teachers or staffers at a doomed charter school have already resigned or have plans to not...
View ArticleLandry alums fight merger plan, as RSD grapples with shrunken Algiers...
Over a hundred people attended a Recovery School District meeting Dec. 15 at L.B. Landry High School to discuss a planned merger with O. Perry Walker High School. Chris Meyer, an RSD department...
View ArticleRSD turns over 5 schools to charter groups, closes another; vocational...
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | The Recovery School District announced today which charter operators next year will manage five schools that are now directly run by the district. It also...
View ArticleGroup stripped of charter introduces McDonogh 42 parents to new leaders
By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer | Despite a vow by a failed charter operator to fight the state’s revocation of its contract to run McDonogh No. 42, , an attitude of cordiality prevailed at...
View ArticleWould-be local charter operators vent frustrations at state school board meeting
A frustration that’s become commonplace among community groups that feel disenfranchised by the Recovery School District’s latest decisions prevailed Wednesday night at a New Orleans meeting of the...
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