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Jan 2, 2025 · ‘A make-believe person in a make-believe world’ “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 fell.’
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.
Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice to end contract with troubled ...
Nov 25, 2024 · ‘Nothing short of scheming’ Back in August, OJJ claimed in a court filing that it is no longer utilizing the Jackson Parish Jail as a state secure-care facility.. But the jail still holds some individuals who are — to some degree, at least — within OJJ custody.
Licensing a troubled juvenile jail | The Lens
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.
Saving St. Louis No. 2 Cemetery from cars and longtime neglect
Dec 2, 2024 · Jeff Poree, 74, a fifth-generation master plasterer, has tackled nearly every obstacle possible within his field. But last fall, in Square 3 of St. Louis No. 2 Cemetery, he faced a novel challenge: the restoration of a free-standing tomb, towering five vaults high by three wide, that was on the verge of collapse because a tree was growing within it.
‘Servitude’ | The Lens
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.
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 ...
Oil and gaffe - The Lens
Dec 11, 2024 · There’s a new boogeyman in town seeking to destroy jobs, shrink the economy, and push Louisiana into poverty. That boogeyman? Louisiana residents who are working day in and day out to protect themselves and their neighbors from …
‘Tis the season for school closures | The Lens
Dec 10, 2024 · A KIPP Leadership student on the playground. (La’Shance Perry/The Lens) Credit: La'Shance Perry / Education – The Lens Closing campuses, changing communities. King School has faced challenges over the years, including a longstanding non-compliance order for special education services, facility problems and allegations of nepotism.But for years, its lower-school campus was a district ...