Marie Fazio
Reporter| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Education reporter for The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate | previously @report4america @nytimes @chicagotribune | say hello: [email protected] 🍀
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Marie Fazio
The parents of a 9-year-old boy with profound disabilities have sued a selective charter school in New Orleans, claiming that the school’s use of an admissions test violates legal protections for students with disabilities. In a lawsuit filed this week in New Orleans Civil District Court, Chris and Cristina Edmunds argue that the Willow School’s entrance exam excludes students with disabilities — including their son Oscar — from moving forward in the application process.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Marie Fazio
A plan to make the University of New Orleans part of the LSU system could cost the state more than $80 million over the next five years — and the move won’t happen unless state legislators secure the funds. The plan would have UNO leave the University of Louisiana system and move back to the LSU system, which governed the university from its founding until 2011.
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2 weeks ago |
nola.com | Marie Fazio
For Lakeisha Green, a single working parent in New Orleans, juggling two children at different charter schools can be complex and expensive. Her daughter, an 11th grader at New Orleans Charter Science and Math High School, and her son, a seventh grader at Ben Franklin Charter Middle School, often have different days off from school. On those days, Green has no choice but to pay an elderly neighbor $25 to watch her son until she returns home from her job as a full-time social worker.
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Marie Fazio
New Orleans charter school leaders are refuting claims by the Louisiana state treasurer that their schools misspent public funds, including on expensive restaurant outings, saying the information was presented out of context and used as a "political weapon." State Treasurer John Fleming has issued in recent weeks a series of press releases flagging “questionable expenditures” made by schools, including $17,563 spent at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant and a $2,000 political donation by the Orleans...
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