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.

5 days ago · OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to settle last year, when the School Board realized it was facing a $36 million deficit. This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives ...

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 …

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 ...

Dec 26, 2024 · “I keep paper and pen with me at all times because, like the most dynamic dreams, creativity is as wispy as Louisiana mist and dissipates quickly if not seized,” writes John Corley, associate editor of the Angolite, who says that, in his mind, he still lives in 1989, ‘the year I …

Dec 26, 2024 · The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

Dec 21, 2024 · The buck stops where? In recent years, the city’s charter system has added some guardrails that restrict its free-market approach. For instance, it can be very difficult for students to transfer schools during the year unless they qualify under a limited number of “hardship” transfers that must be cleared through the district, which typically …

Jan 2, 2025 · Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited except in the latter case as punishment for a crime.—Louisiana Constitution Article 1, § 3 . EVERY MORNING AT 5 O’CLOCK SHARP, Slim is roused from sleep by the overhead fluorescents that a guard outside the dormitory switches on at the breaker.Slim is 63, blind in one eye, suffering from cirrhosis and diabetes, thin as a rail.

4 days ago · Despite an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, the Lower 9’s Katrina stories should not be discounted, say residents of the area also known as “‘Cross The Canal.” The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl visitors should see – and what Katrina narratives go along ...

Oct 1, 2024 · A year ago, when Jackson Parish opened its new, unlicensed juvenile jail, kids complained of extended stints of solitary confinement, along with extensive abuse and violations. A DCFS inspection supported those claims, but the agency gave the jail a license anyway.