Audubon Charter School's Broadway campus.
With a Lower Garden District site deemed unacceptably contaminated by lead, Audubon Charter School will continue searching over the summer for a temporary location that will allow renovations at its Broadway campus can proceed as planned last year, officials said.
The planned renovation and expansion of Audubon’s Broadway campus was postponed “until further notice” Wednesday, the Orleans Parish School Board said after failing to reach an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Quality on how to to make a temporary campus proposed for Annuniciation Street safe from the high levels of lead in the soil there. Late Thursday afternoon, Audubon officials said the search is back on.
“The FAME Board and the Audubon Charter School administration will continue to work with the Orleans Parish School Board to identify suitable swing space for our students during the renovation of our Broadway campus,” the emailed statement reads. “In the event suitable space is not identified in time for the start of the school year, our students will report to the Broadway campus in the fall. We will continue to keep parents informed through our website and e-mail system.”
The French and Montessori Education, Inc., board (which governs Audubon Charter School) is scheduled to hold its regular monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday (June 18) at the Broadway Carrollton campus. [Corrected at 2 p.m. Friday, via FAME vice-chair Carlos Zervigón]
