Given that mistake, parents question whether the school is financially ready to repair McDonogh 15 in the French Quarter.

Education reporter Marta Jewson on the state's request that the courts free them from a special education consent decree, the ...

State and district school officials argue that they’ve complied with a 2015 federal civil-rights judgment. But lawyers representing students who still aren’t getting adequate special ed services say ...

The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

Council members say they feel beholden to the November agreement that they’d forged with the school board. And though the mayor backed out of the proposal, citing a tight city budget, council members ...

Incarcerated men forced to work the fields on the “Farm Line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are once again urging a federal judge to force the state Department of Public Safety and ...

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The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

As voters head to the polls today to vote on four constitutional amendments, some Lens contributors - two schoolteachers and ...