Across the political spectrum you will find broad consensus that our children are the future. They are the ones, after all, who will inherit whatever mess we make of things […]
Category: Education
Report Finds Child Trauma Rates “Higher than Soldiers Returning from War” in New Orleans
January 22, 2020On Tuesday, nearly 100 social workers from across Louisiana gathered to preview a new report from the New Orleans Children & Youth Planning Board (CYPB) titled “Called to Care.” The […]
Parents Join Step Up Louisiana Rally and March to OPSB to Demand Better Schools
December 20, 2019More than 50 workers, parents, and members of Step Up Louisiana held a rally on Thursday evening before marching to the final Orleans Parish School Board meeting of 2019 to […]
Urban League of Louisiana: “Critical Areas of Opportunity Must Be Addressed by NOLA Public Schools”
November 12, 2019Last week, the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) released the annual School Performance Scores. Each school in the state is rated A-F based on student performance during state testing, and […]
New Orleans Public Library Joins National Action Against Macmillan e-Books
November 4, 2019On November 1, 2019, the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) announced that they will join other library systems across the country in boycotting ebooks from Macmillian Publishers, one of the […]
Op-Ed: The Mental and Economic Enslavement of Children Through State Charters: Are Our Children for Sale?
August 25, 2019Robert Green Ingersoll once opined, “Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.” Our State […]
Opinion: Optimism Alone Won’t Create a Successful School Year
August 22, 2019Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Medium. It has been reprinted with the author’s permission. The smell of education is in the air. Parents have bought uniforms. School supplies […]
In the Charter School System, Who Comes First: Students or CEOs?
August 1, 2019Big Easy Magazine covered the last public school in New Orleans being turned into a charter school and the fears of parents in “Charter Schools and Race in New Orleans”. […]
Orleans Parish Schools Can’t Install Antimicrobial Filters Due to Low Water Pressure
June 13, 2019A plan to install lead and antimicrobial filters at Orleans Parish public schools has hit a snag. It turns out that the antimicrobial filters require much higher water pressure than […]
Teachers Win Pay Raise in Baton Rouge
June 4, 2019After some behind the scenes turmoil on Monday, Louisiana legislators agreed on a package deal to effectively give public school teachers a raise of $1,000.
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