Compare 2019 New Orleans school ratings
The Louisiana Department of Education released its annual school performance scores Wednesday. | Read more|
The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 55: ‘People are getting up at meetings to talk about how much they’re getting hit by this new assessment’
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Sheriff’s Office budget creates $13 million question mark for the 2020 budget
Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman presented his proposed budget to the City Council on Thursday, saying that his general fund allocation would increase by $13 million next year, from $53 million to $66 million. | Read more|
Records show how Cantrell administration officials walked back Airbnb enforcement plans over the past year
All four of the short-term rentals on Ada Phleger’s block in the St. Claude neighborhood either have an expired permit or have had their permit revoked by the city’s Department of Safety and Permits. | Read more|
Behind The Lens episode 54: ‘Targeting Black communities as sites for industrial pollution is environmental racism, and is unacceptable.’
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City Council to consider $1 million fine on Entergy for frequent power outages
After more than two years of investigations, the New Orleans City Council plans to vote on a resolution to fine Entergy New Orleans $1 million for its “inaction and omissions in mitigating” the thousands of power outages the city experiences every year. | Read more|
Behind The Lens episode 53: ‘The ramifications for our business are severe… I’m worried about long term’
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Cantrell proposes compromise on property tax rates in new revenue forecast
New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell’s administration is offering a compromise in the debate over whether to lower property tax rates in response to skyrocketing property assessments throughout the city. | Read more|
David v. Goliath: The October March to save lives in Louisiana’s ‘Death Alley’
David v. Goliath: The October March to save lives in Louisiana’s ‘Death Alley’ | Read more|
Citywide school audit will cover about 5 percent of high school student files
NOLA Public Schools district Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s promised citywide audit of high school academic records will cover about 5 percent of high school students, The Lens confirmed Tuesday. | Read more|
City Planning Commission votes against increasing jail capacity
The New Orleans City Planning Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to deny a proposal by the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office that would increase the capacity of the New Orleans jail above the longstanding cap of 1,438 beds and pave the way for a new jail building, known as Phase III, that would add 89 new beds and | Read more|
Behind The Lens episode 51: ‘The city is responsible for this, not the residents of Gordon Plaza.’
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Court-appointed special education monitors detail how the state picked the wrong New Orleans schools for federal consent decree scrutiny
Independent monitors overseeing the Louisiana Department of Education’s work under a federal consent judgment have identified a series of mistakes — ranging from calculation errors to what appears to be sloppy record-keeping — that led the state to monitor the wrong New Orleans schools for special education servi | Read more|
Council members question whether the city is holding too many teens in the adult jail
New Orleans City Council members on Thursday criticized the ongoing practice of detaining juveniles at the city’s adult lockup, saying it goes against city ordinances designating the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center — formerly the Youth Study Center — as the appropriate facility for juveniles, including those | Read more|
‘I feel like I was robbed’: Kennedy HS graduate questions his class ranking as school recalculates GPAs
‘I feel like I was robbed’: Kennedy HS graduate questions his class ranking as school recalculates GPAs | Read more|