2024年11月20日 · The Louisiana Department of Education released state school performance scores Wednesday morning. Once again, the NOLA Public Schools district received a C. The C seemed to stand for consistency, since the district earned the same letter grade in 2023 and 2022. But it did continue to inch up the state’s 150-point scale, when compared with last year, the district’s performance score crept ...

2024年11月18日 · The Orleans Parish School Board settles a years-long lawsuit against the city, to provide financially strained schools with help that includes a swift, $20 million cash infusion and $70 million for education over 10 years.

2024年10月1日 · 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.

2024年12月20日 · In the Holy Cross Neighborhood, residents obtain Port emails showing that a modest grain terminal at the Alabo Wharf includes more phases—and now includes crude sunflower oil, shipped in from Turkey.

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2024年12月21日 · Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men closed Friday, and its students are now frantically trying to find spots to finish out the school year. Parents say that the school’s mid-year closing was a tragedy that could have been foreseen – and prevented.

2024年12月26日 · The old man hated the cold. Hated how it seeped into his bones and dried his skin, made his knees and elbows hurt, sometimes his lower back. He hated standing by the sally port gate and rubbing his hands, waiting for his ride to come with a thick pillow of fog lying just off the ground out across the open fields, so he knew he would have to wait a while longer. He hated the fog, hated that he ...

2024年12月19日 · This week on Behind The Lens, 2025 is fast approaching and as we turn the last page on the calendar of 2024, we will take a look back at the stories that our reporters at The Lens view as the most impactful or memorable of the year. Our guests this week are criminal justice reporter Nick Chrastil, environmental reporter Delaney Dryfoos, education reporter Marta Jewson, reporter and ...

2024年12月26日 · Author Archives: Lawson Strickland, winner of the PEN Prison Writing Award for Fiction, as interviewed by Nick Chrastil, The Lens

2024年12月26日 · “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 …