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Empty New Orleans school buildings could prompt a round of musical chairs

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | March 05, 2023

New Orleans charter schools can apply to move their schools into two unoccupied Orleans Parish school district-owned buildings for next school year.

Report: Black students most likely to attend Louisiana's worst public schools

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | January 29, 2023

Black students are more than five times as likely to attend a D- or F-rated public school as White students, according to a state audit released Monday.

Two years after renaming, NOLA Public Schools begins replacing signs

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | January 26, 2023

The Orleans Parish school district has begun to physically remove traces of the old names from buildings that once honored slave owners, confederate leaders and segregation supporters.

Louisiana education leaders consider sweeping changes to address student truancy

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | January 09, 2023

Louisiana's growing problem with student truancy requires state leaders to consider sweeping changes, including stricter rules on student attendance, requiring students to wear badges to track attendance and yanking the driver's license of those who repeatedly miss school, according to a state task force.

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FETC 2023 is only two weeks away… and the hype is real

Micah Ward | January 08, 2023

For those who will be speaking at FETC, they're bringing their excitement to social media. Let's see what they have to say.

BESE rejects push to toughen high school ratings: 'It is absurd'

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | November 10, 2022

Ending months of paralysis, Louisiana's top school board Thursday soundly rejected state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley's plan to toughen how high schools are rated amid fierce opposition from local superintendents.

Three groups back push to change how schools are rated, 'The time is now'

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | November 07, 2022

Three groups have endorsed a plan by state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley to revamp Louisiana's school accountability system, including how high schools are rated.

English learners make up nearly half of this kindergarten. Here's how the school's adjusting

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | October 16, 2022

In kindergarten, there was a 74% increase this year of EL scholars; they now make up about half the class, said principal Kendall McManus-Thomas.

10-year-old-student accused of making gun threats at Covington area school

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | October 06, 2022

The student was issued a misdemeanor summons for menacing and authorities determined she did not have access to any firearms.

$1.2 million grant allows LEAN, Tulane to create environmental justice curriculum for K-12 schools

Tony DiRomualdo and Franco Girimonte | July 25, 2022

A group of Tulane University professors, environmental advocates and educators are teaming up to design an environmental justice curriculum for the state's K-12 students, made possible by a $1.2 million grant. The project, which will draw from the archives kept by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, a nonprofit Baton-Rouge based organization, will be free and […]

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