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International School of Louisiana board selects new leaders

Posted by Robert Morris at 6:02 pm schools

Jul 302014

The International School of Louisiana’s outgoing board president Matt Amoss (far right) welcomes new member Vanessa Diaz to the board. Dominique Wilson (far left) will serve as the board’s new president. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

After a busy spring choosing a new leader for the International School of Louisiana’s three campuses, the school’s governing board made its own leadership transition on Wednesday night, electing a new president and preparing to say good-by to two long-time board members. Continue reading »

Lycee Francais earns accreditation from French government

Posted by Robert Morris at 11:59 am schools

Jul 252014

The Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans charter school achieved one of the primary goals set by its founders this week, when it secured official accreditation from the French government for its youngest grades. Continue reading »

Group of “P-town” neighbors seeks Healing Center concept for Priestley site instead of French charter school

Posted by Robert Morris at 7:07 pm Featured, neighborhood groups, schools

Jul 102014

The front door of the Priestley school building in west Carrollton. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

Interest by a French-immersion charter school in buying the long-vacant Priestley school site in west-Carrollton has galvanized a group called the “P-Town Project” into seeking a Healing Center-style home for fresh food and social services there instead. Continue reading »

Lycee Francais receives unexpected $440,000 in state funding

Posted by Robert Morris at 6:36 pm Featured, schools

Jul 072014

lycee The Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans charter school is slated to receive an extra $440,000 next year because of an unexpected change in state law, officials said, bolstering ongoing efforts to secure a new building for its middle school and attract more at-risk students. Continue reading »

Gen. Honore leads protest against rebuilding Central City school on ‘toxic dump site’

Posted by Robert Morris at 10:47 am blight and demolition, environment, politics, schools

Jun 272014

Lt. Gen. Russell Honore speaks in February at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in New Orleans. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Robert Morris)

Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, who has become one of Louisiana’s most prominent environmental-justice activists since his retirement from the U.S. Army, spoke Thursday night at a rally at the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church against the rebuilding of the Booker T. Washington School on the 1930s-era Silver City waste dump site in Central City, where dangerous levels of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals reportedly remain in the soil. The Recovery School District says replacing the top layer of soil will be sufficient to make it safe for Walter L. Cohen High School to move in, reports Tania Dall of our partners at WWL-TV.

International School of Louisiana names new Head of School

Posted by Robert Morris at 6:05 pm schools

Jun 252014

International School of Louisiana principal Melanie Tennyson accepts the 2014 school award from the national Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color. (photo via International School of Louisiana)

Bringing an unexpected leadership transition to a speedy resolution, the International School of Louisiana governing board voted Wednesday night to offer a contract as Head of School to current Camp Street principal Melanie Tennyson. Continue reading »

ENCORE Academy to spend next year at Dibert school building in Mid-City

Posted by Robert Morris at 6:35 pm Featured, schools

Jun 242014

The former John Dibert school building in Mid-City will be the temporary home of ENCORE Academy next year. (image via Google maps)

ENCORE Academy’s move downtown will happen more gradually than expected, as the school will spend a year in the John Dibert building in Mid-City while renovations proceed at ENCORE’s eventual home at the Shaw building in the St. Roch neighborhood, officials announced Tuesday night.

“We’ll have the building to ourselves, and there’s plenty of room for all of our kids,” said ENCORE school leader Terri L. Smith. “It’s a great location for our families.” Continue reading »

Ecole Bilingue to renovate former St. Henry’s rectory for classrooms

Posted by Robert Morris at 7:44 am church, city government, Featured, schools

Jun 242014

The former St. Henry’s rectory on General Pershing is slated to become classrooms for Ecole Bilingue. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

The rectory at St. Henry’s church that neighbors once feared would be demolished for a parking lot will receive a new lease on life as classrooms for Ecole Bilingue, according to a plan school leaders shared with the neighborhood Monday evening. Continue reading »

Roof leaks worry Audubon Charter officials as they prepare for an extra year at Gentilly campus

Posted by Robert Morris at 10:07 am Featured, schools

Jun 212014

Audubon Charter School’s temporary campus in Gentilly. (UptownMessenger.com file photo)

Audubon Charter School will likely have to pay for repairs to leaking roofs on the modular buildings at their Gentilly campus, because the return to their Broadway campus has been delayed for at least a year. Continue reading »

Lycee Francais charter school votes to explore purchasing Priestley building

Posted by Robert Morris at 6:34 pm schools

Jun 192014

The front door of the Priestley school building in west Carrollton. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

The long-shuttered Priestley school building in west-Carrollton could finally come back to life after decades of unuse, after the governing board of the Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans charter school enthusiastically voted Thursday evening to ask the Orleans Parish School Board for the opportunity to buy it.

“We’re really excited. We would like to move on it. It’s a nice building on a big plot of land,” said board member Mary Jacobs Jones, chair of the school’s facilities committee. “Even partially boarded up, you can get a feel for what a great building it was.” Continue reading »

Charter leaders look for potential in vacant Carrollton school buildings

Posted by Robert Morris at 9:55 am Featured, schools

Jun 122014

Barbara Griffin and John Wettermark of the International School of Louisiana examine roof damage on the third floor of the Priestley building. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

Leaders of several growing charter schools are weighing the potential of moving into vacant former campuses in the Carrollton area, the former Carrollton courthouse and the old Priestley school, as the Orleans Parish School Board led tours of both on Wednesday in preparation to sell them and other campuses around the city. Continue reading »

International School officials tour vacant school building in Mid-City

Posted by Robert Morris at 11:16 am schools

Jun 052014

The former Augustine Middle School in Mid-City. (Della Hasselle, MidCityMessenger.com)

Officials from the International School of Louisiana toured the vacant former Augustine Middle School building on Broad Street in Mid-City on Wednesday as they “weigh options” for a larger campus, according to a report by Della Hasselle of MidCityMessenger.com. The school’s Camp Street campus is too small for the growing student population, and school officials have been looking for new alternatives — though facilities director Aviva Le told Mid-City Messenger that the challenges of a renovation at Augustine would be “humongous.”

Click here to read the full report at MidCityMessenger.com.

Suspect in rape, abduction of Uptown high school student sentenced to 20 years

Posted by Robert Morris at 3:59 pm court, crime, public safety, schools

Jun 032014

Jonathan Wilson (via opcso.org)

The man arrested in late 2011 and charged with forcing a McMain High School student into a car at gunpoint, raping her and abandoning her in Mid-City pleaded guilty Tuesday morning and agreed to a 20-year prison sentence, prosecutors said. Continue reading »

International School of Louisiana to extend healthcare benefits to employees’ same-sex partners

Posted by Robert Morris at 5:57 pm Featured, schools

May 282014

The International School of Louisiana’a Camp Street campus.

The International School of Louisiana will become the latest New Orleans charter school to offer healthcare benefits to its employees’ same-sex partners, after a vote Wednesday night that board members deemed “symbolic.” Continue reading »

International School of Louisiana poised to promote principal to new Head of Schools

Posted by Robert Morris at 5:38 pm Featured, schools

May 212014

Principal Melanie Tennyson (right) speaks to other International School administrators in May of 2011. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Robert Morris)

Principal Melanie Tennyson speaks to other International School administrators in May of 2011. (UptownMessenger.com file photo by Robert Morris)

With the departure of its school leader little more than a month away, the International School of Louisiana is preparing to promote the current principal of its Camp Street campus to lead the school system for the next three years. Continue reading »

Old Carrollton courthouse placed on school board’s surplus-property list, Audubon officials say

Posted by Robert Morris at 10:51 am Featured, schools

May 172014

The old Carrollton courthouse, photographed during a school event in 2012. (UptownMessenger.com file)

Now that Audubon Charter School has moved out of the former Carrollton courthouse, the historic building is being placed on the Orleans Parish School Board’s surplus-property list, which could eventually lead to its sale, school officials said Saturday. Continue reading »

Lycee Francais still deciding when to begin middle-school expansion

Posted by Della Hasselle at 6:39 pm schools

May 132014

lycee The governing board of Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans is still contemplating when to begin its expansion into the middle school grades — whether to wait until its current students reach those levels, or to begin adding those grades earlier. Continue reading »

jewel bush: Kids rethink neighborhood spaces today to build a better New Orleans of tomorrow

Posted by UptownMessenger.com at 9:52 am arts, books and music, good works, opinion, schools

May 132014

Students present their plans at the Contemporary Arts Center. (photo by jewel bush for UptownMessenger.com)

jewel bush

With the unleashing of their imaginations and mentorship from the National Organization of Minority Architects, four teams from Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, Sci Academy and Urban League College Track spent the last year analyzing the needs of various neighborhoods around the city and then developing architectural plans designed to meet those needs.

Security, transportation, employment, shelter and food were among areas the youth considered during the urban planning process. They sought to define space and place and answer questions like: Does a church fall under the category of public space, entertainment or education?

And what the budding architects, ranging in ages 11 to 18, envisioned is nothing short of thoughtful, innovative and really, really sweet. Continue reading »

Newman School breaks ground on new GreenTrees Early Childhood Village

Posted by Robert Morris at 9:33 am schools

May 032014

An Isidore Newman “Greenie” toddler plays with a tiny shovel during groundbreaking ceremonies Friday for the school’s new GreenTrees Early Childrhood Village. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)

The facility will sit at the corner of Soniat and Danneel streets. (Site plan by Waggoner and Ball via Isidore Newman School)

As the youngest Greenies played with tiny shovels in a VIP section made of blankets spread on the grass, leaders of the Isidore Newman School broke ground Friday afternoon on the new GreenTrees Early Childhood Village — a project officials call crucial to the school’s future with a name in homage to its past. Continue reading »

Students from International School of Louisiana, Andrew Wilson among Jazz Fest lineup at “Locals’ Thursday”

Posted by Robert Morris at 9:42 am arts, books and music, schools

May 022014

Students from the International School of Louisiana perform acrobatics during a circus arts showcase (Della Hasselle, Mid-City Messenger).

Students from the International School of Louisiana Circus Arts program and Andrew Wilson Charter School were among the local schools that were part of the lineup at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Thursday, reports Della Hasselle of our sister site, Mid-City Messenger.

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