Leaked emails show the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools landed a meeting with the Labor Secretary, who assuaged short-term concerns. Long-run worries remain though.

For more than a decade, we have reported on issues as well as public policy meant to address the needs of residents. The Lens ...

Leah Chase School, it seems, was never meant to exist—at least, not as a traditional public school. Less than two years later, NOLA Public Schools’ board members are debating whether to close it.

A month later, ICE officials presented him with voluntary departure papers. He says they told him that he’d be flown free-of-charge to Honduras – and ICE would pay him $1,000. Plus, he’d be able to ...

With OPSB slated to decide the fate of Leah Chase School tonight, school parents, along with the Chase family itself, are ...

On weekdays, quiet mornings are interrupted with the sound of loud whistles blowing and security officers screaming “work call!” at the top of their lungs. Even before guys are shipped from parish ...

Bumper stickers don’t always provide healthy nourishment for the mind. But “Be a New Orleanian Wherever You Are,” which has been posted ubiquitously in the past few years, strikes me as an exception.

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As ICE enforcement intensifies under “Catahoula Crunch,” New Orleanians shelter in place, prepare contingency plans, and ...

Recent legal changes, a Trump-friendly governor and a large immigration detention infrastructure could make the New Orleans ...