The International School of Louisiana’a Camp Street campus.
“We knock it out of the park in terms of where the state is, where the parishes are,” said Head of Schools Sean Wilson at Wednesday night’s board meeting. “It doesn’t mean we rest on our laurels. It means we now look at where we can improve.” Continue reading »
Mireille Rabaté, a principal at the French American International School in San Francisco, has turned down an offer from the directors of Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans to be the school’s next leader, according to a report by The Lens. Rabaté was the only finalist for the job following a national search, and the school has not announced what its next steps will be.
Audubon Charter School leaders heard a presentation on a $6.9 million budget for the coming school year that will include the addition of a new Chinese teacher for middle school students. Continue reading »
Lycee Francais board members (from left) Ben Castoriano, Alysson Mills, Catherine MacPhaille, Erin Greenwald, Paige Saleun and Jean Montes at Monday night’s board meeting. Also present (but not pictured) were Jacqueline Simon, Tim Gray and Dan Henderson. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
The Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans governing board accepted three new members Monday night — one of whom will be seated immediately — and voted to begin contract negotiations with a San Francisco educator to become the school’s new leader. Continue reading »
Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans could agree on the end of its six-month process of leadership changes tonight (Monday, May 13) when it reviews a potential new director for the school and considers adding three more board members to the five previously approved last month. Continue reading »
Five or six teachers from Sylvanie Williams Elementary will join the six teachers remaining at Crocker Elementary next year, leaving only two faculty positions for the New Orleans College Prep administration to fill for the coming year, reports Joshua Johnston of The Lens. School leader Ben Kleban says the NOCP campuses — at Williams, Crocker and Walter L. Cohen High School — are diversifying away from young teachers from organizations like Teach for America, Johnston reports.
Romona Luke, who has filled in at nearly every position at Samuel Green Charter School since it opened after Hurricane Katrina (and for seven years before that at New Orleans Charter Middle School), finally retired Friday afternoon at age 84 with a party filled with memories and dancing, reports Danielle Dreilinger of The Times-Picayune.
The batteries on the solar panels that power the school-zone lights have died on both sides of the International School of Louisiana, and parents and school officials are both concerned that a student could get hurt if they aren’t repaired, reports Bill Capo of our partners at WWL-TV.
Walter L. Cohen High School has run a budget deficit since it was taken over by the Future Is Now charter network that also operates John McDonogh High School, and whether Future Is Now will continue running it depends on the financial contribution that the Recovery School District will agree to, according to a report by Della Hasselle of The Lens.
Bricolage Academy, the new Orleans Parish Charter School that will open this fall on the campus of Touro Synagogue, has been awarded a $1 million New Schools for New Orleans grant from the $30 million NOLA Charter Excellence Fund, designed to create 15,000 high-quality public-school seats in the city. Continue reading »
A corporate finance director, a retired public-school superintendent and a program manager for a nonprofit housing developer are being recommended to join the Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans governing board this summer, ultimately resulting in a team of eight people to lead the school though its next year. Continue reading »
Residents and school officials examine the yard behind the McDonogh 7 school building where temporary structures are planned for next year, when Audubon Charter is slated to move in. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Residents and officials gather in front of the McDonogh 7 building. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Newman students Catherine Sillars and Jules Vetter act in a scene from “Lend Me a Tenor.” (submitted photo)
The “Drexel Dreamers” — the umbrella group of alumni and supporters of Xavier University Prep — will be holding an enrollment rally all day Friday and until 3 p.m. Saturday to recruit students for Katharanie Drexel Preparatory High School that will succeed Xavier Prep next year. Continue reading »
Mireille Rabate, a principal at French American International School in San Francisco, will be invited to New Orleans for an in-person interview May 9 for the CEO job at the Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans charter school, according to a report from The Lens. Meanwhile, the committee screening candidates accepted four more “last-minute” applications for review and selected two of them for a second interview — Lysianne Essama, a French-immersion principal from Maryland, and J’Vann Martin, a former principal at Capital-One New Beginnings Charter School Network, the report states.
[Update, 12 p.m. Friday] The committee will meet again at 8:45 a.m. Saturday at 1441 Canal Street to interview Essama and Martin in a closed-door session, the school announced.
In their first year participating in the growing OneApp enrollment process for New Orleans public schools, Ben Franklin Elementary was the most popular choice for young students and Eleanor McMain Secondary School was the most sought-after for high school students, according to an article by Danielle Dreilinger of The Times-Picayune. All direct-run Orleans Parish School Board campuses joined the process this year, including both of the B-rated Uptown schools that proved so popular.
Charters authorized through the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education — including the International School of Louisiana and Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans — will join the OneApp process in the next year, state officials previously decided. Orleans Parish charters, such as Lusher and Audubon, are not likely to be required to join until their current charters are renewed several years down the road.
Students from Eleanor McMain Secondary School perform at Tipitina’s Instruments A Comin’ benefit Monday night. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
Marching bands from four New Orleans schools — Martin Behrman, Eleanor McMain, McDonogh 35 and the St. Augustine “Marching 100″ — performed for crowds packing Napoleon Avenue on Monday night to kick off Tipitina’s annual Instruments A Comin’ benefit, raising money to buy instruments that will be placed in other area schools. Continue reading »
Bricolage Academy, the new Orleans Parish charter school borne out of the efforts of the 4.0 Schools education think tank, will spend its first year at Touro Synagogue on St. Charles Avenue, officials announced. Continue reading »
A member of the St. Augustine Marching 100 plays in the Battle of the Bands for the Instruments A-Comin’ benefit at Tipitina’s in April 2012. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Robert Morris)
An aerial view of the ISL campus. The modular classrooms are planned for the grass-and-dirt area on the Magazine Street side of the school, a field currently used for soccer and other sports. (image via Google Maps)
Now, the primary question left to answer is how long the modulars will stay on the Magazine Street side of the campus — two years, five, or much longer? Continue reading »