The Renaming Committee for New Orleans Public Schools met Tuesday (May 25) to deliberate on the final names they will propose to school Superintendent Henderson Lewis. From there, Lewis will review the list of names and make his recommendations to the Orleans Parish School Board for their final vote of approval over the summer. The […]
On Thursday night New Orleans Public Schools Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. made an announcement
District schools will not be required to offer families a virtual learning option for the coming school year, Lewis said at a regularly scheduled meeting of the Orleans Parish School Board.
“I want to be very, very clear as we come out of this pandemic, that distance learning can no longer be the norm,” Lewis said. “Students are safe physically and emotionally when they receive their education face-to-face with their teachers and shoulder-to-shoulder with their peers.”
While classrooms in other parts of the country are still closed due to COVID-19, New Orleans’ schools have been open for months. Under state guidance, as well as the district’s
The initiative is the only federal funding source dedicated exclusively to supporting local summer learning (as well as afterschool and before-school programs) for students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools.
Grant Proposals Show Plans To Triple Summer School Enrollment
Dobard said he expects the number of students attending summer school to triple this year, from 4,000 to 12,000, based on the 72 grant proposals his organization reviewed.
Accepted applications had to meet two conditions: Provide students with transportation to and from the school and be able to draw a “throughline” between summer offerings and the skills students need to be successful in the classroom.
Students play at Akili Academy in the Upper 9th Ward. Nov. 13, 2020.
In the past, New Orleans Public Schools’ strategic planning has been seen as an internal process. Now the district is looking to change that.
NOLA-PS has undergone some big changes in recent years the biggest one being the reunification of the city’s all-charter system under the Orleans Parish School Board in 2018. Since then, the district has centralized some aspects of the system, like enrollment, while still leaving charter management organizations with a fair degree of autonomy.
Whether to give charter school leaders more or less control is just one of many issues the district is considering as part of its current strategic planning process, and they’re hungry for community input.
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