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How Louisiana’s richest students go to college on the backs of the poor

Avatar photo by Emmanuel Felton October 30, 2019April 8, 2021

THIBODAUX, La. — Rodney Woods was on the fence about applying to Nicholls State University, a four-year public institution a 20-minute walk from his mother’s house in Louisiana’s Bayou Region, a rural area of the state dotted with sugar cane fields and mud-colored swamps. He had been on campus a few times. Both he and […]

Posted inNews

How New Orleans leaders built a segregated city

Avatar photo by Sarah Carr March 14, 2019October 21, 2020
School founder Vera Triplett holds a potential future student while chatting with current students Joelia Simmons and Langston Kali.
Posted inNew Orleans, News, Solutions, The South

These schools are opening their arms to special education students. Can they afford it?

Avatar photo by Sharon Lurye August 30, 2018October 21, 2020
Brady Lafleur completes a puzzle in a specialized classroom at the old McDonogh 35 Senior High School facility.
Posted inElementary to High School

Brady’s room: One family navigates special education in New Orleans

by Marta Jewson June 28, 2018June 9, 2021
Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher.
Posted inElementary to High School

The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

Avatar photo by Sharon Lurye May 30, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

More charter schools means fewer early education options, new research shows

by Marta Jewson December 11, 2017October 21, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, News

Group withdraws applications to convert remaining traditional schools in New Orleans to charters

by Marta Jewson April 25, 2017July 13, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Study says New Orleans schools spend more on administration and less on teaching after charter transformation

by Marta Jewson February 2, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

A New Orleans charter network has spent the last year making up teaching for special-ed students shorted two years ago

by Marta Jewson January 4, 2017October 21, 2020
The original Booker T. Washington high school, built in 1940, on top of the Great Depression-era Silver City Dump. Hurricane Katrina devastated original structure. Now several groups are concerned about rebuilding on the site.
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, News, The South

Dumping Ground? Groups oppose building of school at New Orleans waste site

by Marta Jewson August 28, 2015October 21, 2020

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