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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

THIS IS PART OF “OPERATING CAPITAL,” AN ONGOING LENS DISCUSSION ABOUT LOUISIANA’S RESUMPTION OF EXECUTIONS. Earlier this month, Dr. Joseph Antognini, a California-based retired anesthesiologist, ...

Anthony "Meathead" Hingle Sr. (left, on walker) watching his son, Spyboy Anthony Hingle Jr. on St. Joseph's Night. (Photo by La'Shance Perry / The Lens) With about a week left until Mardi Gras, ...