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.
Children’s Hospital officials and the lawmakers who brokered a compromise regarding their expansion to the adjacent New Orleans Adolescent Hospital will hold a neighborhood meeting next week to discuss additional mental-health services that are planned.
Students from Eleanor McMain Secondary School perform at Tipitina’s Instruments A Comin’ benefit Monday night. (Robert Morris, UptownMessenger.com)
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. 
White powder in a letter sent to Touro Infirmary earlier this month — just a few days before the Boston Marathon bombings and a series of envelopes containing the toxin ricin were sent to federal officials — has been deemed harmless by investigators, officials said.