The Pontchartrain Conservancy is inviting the community to its sixth annual Storm Aware and Prepare event, set to take place on Saturday, May 31, at the New Canal Lighthouse from 9 a.m. to noon. The family-friendly event, presented by Entergy, aims to provide free hurricane preparedness resources and supplies for the upcoming 2025 hurricane season. […]
This week, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly closed the book on one of Louisiana’s longest-standing school desegregation orders—first issued in 1966 to Plaquemines Parish, a place whose history of racial exclusion was once so notorious it had a name: Leander Perez. The DOJ framed the decision as “correcting a historical wrong.” But let’s call […]
The recent Louisiana Ten Commandments Law, which mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, is a controversial move that poses a significant threat to our constitutional freedom of religion. While this decision may be met with approval from some Christian communities, it opens a Pandora’s box that could ultimately undermine religious […]
Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the end of slavery in the United States. This holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the freedom of enslaved African Americans, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. […]
Last year, the cost of property insurance for NOLA Public Schools nearly doubled, from $7.6 million to $11.2 million for the 2022-23 school year. NOLA PS will likely not know the cost of insurance for this coming year until July. Ultimately, students may end up feeling the cost of this dramatic rise in rates as […]
After nearly two hours of public comments against the motion, the Orleans Parish School Board voted 6-1 in favor of a resolution opposing a bill that would limit charter school authority in New Orleans, and return that authority back to the school board.
It's common practice for any city to give a high-performing executive raises when their institutions are doing well. In New Orleans, however, it appears that city leaders can earn huge salaries and even raises - in spite of poor performance.
As of Wednesday, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has reinstated the indoor mask mandate statewide in order to protect Louisiana citizens from the delta variant of the coronavirus which has brought a fourth wave surge of Covid-19 cases to the state. As children return to school, the mask mandate includes children in kindergarten through college […]
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been taking a front row seat in Republican circles recently. When Republicans run out of ideas, they base their survival on wedge issues. CRT is just the latest bogeyman. In Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and other states, there are attempts to forbid the teaching in schools of blackness and the shared […]
It's not the first time this has happened, and it won't be the last. Teachers accused of punching, verbally abusing, and other acts of violence against special needs students are not as uncommon as people might wish. In a lawsuit in Covington, Louisiana, at Covington Elementary School, a special needs teacher was accused of injuring […]
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