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 ...

Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, ...

After 32 years away, Anthony Hingle Jr. is back in town, continuing the work of his father, Flagboy Meathead, a legend among ...

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 ...

This week, two St. James Parish residents who recently wrote a piece for the Lens on their families’ deep roots in the region and how local histories like their own are threatened by the oil, gas, and ...

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

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 ...

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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