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Dec 18, 2024 · Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men closed Friday, and its students are now frantically trying to find spots to finish out the school year. Parents say that the school’s mid-year closing was a tragedy that could have been foreseen – and prevented. In the Holy Cross Neighborhood, residents ...
Compare 2024 school performance scores for New Orleans charters
Nov 20, 2024 · Though its score climbed a little, the NOLA Public Schools district received the same grade, a C, from the state of Louisiana for the third year in a row. The state’s A-F letter grades are particularly high-stakes for 12 charters, who …
School Board seizes $20 million cash settlement, future funding, …
Nov 18, 2024 · Securing Harrah’s Funding for Orleans schools and services to school kids. The City Council had set aside $8 million last year, to deal with the lawsuit, but in light of the district’s financial crisis, the Council came up with extra money and hastened the agreement, said Councilman Joe Giarrusso, pictured above, center.
Grain Terminal in the Lower 9: ‘It’s not going to be good for us.’
Nov 1, 2024 · The Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy Cross are concerned about grain dust, pests, rodents and a steady line of railcars passing right outside their doors.
Louisiana could be out billions, if controversial coastal-restoration ...
Nov 11, 2024 · Scientists push for project completion . A group of more than 30 scientists around Louisiana recently co-authored a letter in support of CPRA’s Coastal Master Plan in the wake of news about the threat from the federal government.. The Barataria Basin in Plaquemines Parish is the site of a nearly $3 billion project to reconnect the Mississippi River to the estuary to restore wetlands and ...
‘Catastrophic’: Superintendent resigns amid district’s $36 million ...
Nov 14, 2024 · Update: The Orleans Parish School Board named Deputy Superintendent Fateama Fulmore interim superintendent Thursday night. NOLA Public Schools Superintendent Avis Williams formally announced her resignation Thursday morning, following a $36 million budgeting gaffe that’s left schools in dire financial straits.
As Mississippi River towns experience whiplash between drought …
Nov 18, 2024 · Quick payouts could take burdens off cities. Floodwaters from the Mississippi River engulf Grafton, IL’s riverfront and Main Street on May 29, 2019.
‘Cajun Coral’ could reshape former oil and gas platforms along the …
Nov 15, 2024 · Cajun Coral – a new resource for artificial reef construction. Todd Graves, founder of Raising Cane’s, donated $100,000 to CCA Louisiana for the construction of an artificial reef at the site of the decommissioned Hotel Sid platform.
Neighborhoods Watched
Oct 21, 2021 · Project by Michael Isaac Stein, Caroline Sinders and Winnie Yoe. October 21, 2021 “What’s up with these cameras?” That’s what Dee Dee Green remembers thinking the first time she saw one of New Orleans’ police surveillance cameras in 2018, flashing red and blue lights over a community garden she manages in the city’s Hollygrove neighborhood.
To prevent suicide, New Orleans daughter urges states to let …
Nov 19, 2024 · Donna’s Law, which allows people to ban themselves from gun ownership, has proven one of the few areas of gun policy where Republicans and Democrats can agree. But it has made little headway in Louisiana, home of the bill’s namesake.