Marta Jewson
Interim Editor at The Lens
Lost my MN accent reporting on New Orleans charter schools @TheLensNOLA. Mid-Citizen with an extra-tall Blue Heeler. Header📸: it was out of compliance.
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1 week ago |
thelensnola.org | Marta Jewson
The Orleans Parish School Board will meet Monday morning to consider a settlement offer from the city of New Orleans in a six-year-old legal battle over property taxes. School leaders hope to add money to their strained coffers, though they don’t yet know the offer’s details, they said. Getting to this point has been a political rollercoaster.
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1 month ago |
thelensnola.org | Marta Jewson
After missing a crucial step in the renovation of its Leonidas campus, Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans ended up paying more than $408,000 in property taxes — even though public schools are exempt from such charges in Orleans Parish. Footed by taxpayers, the costly error is the kind of problem that can occur when novice boards – like those that commonly oversee charter schools in the city’s decentralized system – are in charge of multi-million projects, experts say.
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1 month ago |
thelensnola.org | Marta Jewson
The Louisiana Department of Education and Orleans Parish School Board have asked a federal judge to release them from a decade-old judgment, instituted on behalf of special-education students who weren’t receiving services from charter schools in the early days of New Orleans’ decentralized school district.
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1 month ago |
wwno.org | Marta Jewson
With an upcoming budget amendment, New Orleans City Councilmembers plan to send an additional $10 million to NOLA Public Schools, supporting the cash-strapped school district and honoring a purported November settlement torpedoed by Mayor LaToya Cantrell. All seven council members have signed on to the ordinance, which is expected to be formally approved at the next council meeting on April 10.
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1 month ago |
thelensnola.org | Marta Jewson
With an upcoming budget amendment, New Orleans City Councilmembers plan to send an additional $10 million to NOLA Public Schools, supporting the cash-strapped school district and honoring a purported November settlement torpedoed by Mayor LaToya Cantrell. All seven council members have signed on to the ordinance, which is expected to be formally approved at the next council meeting on April 10.
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RT @BMarshallEnviro: Bob Marshall: Mid-Barataria permit controversy raises existential question for South Louisiana https://t.co/DRjGWGiUmG…
At 5p on a Jazz Fest Friday the city trumpeted a deal w OPSB. That wasn’t true. OPSB meets today to hear the city’s offer. Anything short of stopping the 2% collection fee off school taxes amounts to nothing more than a "payday loan," Morrell said. https://t.co/gOy5vVRlnj
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I’m an elected official myself & I have no clue what is going on,when it’s going to end,who is in charge,or who to call to take any responsibility. My job is in BR, we are trying to figure out insurance so that we can stay in our homes, but can’t even get to our homes #lalege
