Marie Fazio

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New Orleans schools are offering families fewer state-funded preschool seats than they did a few years ago, according to state officials who say they are concerned that fewer children could have access to free pre-K. This fall, New Orleans public schools will offer 1,240 state-funded pre-K seats to children from low-income families — nearly 250 fewer seats than in the 2020-21 school year, according to state data.

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More than a dozen international students studying in Louisiana, including at least six in New Orleans, have had their visas revoked without explanation by the Trump administration, university officials confirmed on Tuesday. In New Orleans, two students at Tulane University, two at Southern University at New Orleans and three at the University of New Orleans have had their student visa status terminated, according to university officials.

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Two Tulane University fraternities have been suspended while they are under investigation for hazing, a university official confirmed Thursday. The fraternities, Delta Tau Delta and Phi Kappa Sigma, were placed under interim suspension pending the outcome of investigations into alleged hazing, Mike Strecker, a spokesperson for the university, said in a statement.

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State officials are demanding an explanation for the New Orleans school system’s ongoing budget crisis, which State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley blamed partly on Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Members of the state board of education said Tuesday they would request detailed information from the Orleans Parish School Board about the school system's $50 million deficit, which stemmed from inflated tax-revenue projections.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Marie Fazio

A new bill in the state Legislature would set into motion a plan to return the University of New Orleans to the LSU system. State Sen. Jimmy Harris, D-New Orleans, filed a bill last week that proposes shifting UNO, in the throes of an urgent financial crisis, from the University of Louisiana system to the LSU system, which oversaw the lakefront university from its founding in 1956 until about a decade ago.