Demolition of Booker T. Washington High School, on Earhart Boulevard near the B.W. Cooper public housing development, is now under way, but plans call for preserving the school’s storied auditorium.
The first new high school built in New Orleans specifically…
Recognizing the important coverage of charter schools by The Lens, two local philanthropies have made another round of grants, this year totaling $25,000.
The Greater New Orleans Foundation today awarded $10,000 in an IMPACT 2012 grant to The Lens’ Charter School…
The Lens received its official nonprofit designation from the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday, ending a 26-month wait.
The designation opens up more funding opportunities for The Lens; some foundations choose to grant money only to official 501(c)(3) organizations. It also…
The University of New Orleans, which operates WWNO-FM, today announced revised plans to support a collaborative, nonprofit multimedia news operation, expanding the reporting role of The Lens and increasing the NPR affiliate’s focus on news and cultural information.
The new…
Powerful Edison Chouest Offshore, a large and dominant shipbuilding company on the nation’s Gulf coast, has become increasingly influential in Alaska, too.…
by Cora Currier
A Senate committee is close to putting the final stamp on a massive report on the CIA’s detention, interrogation and rendition of terror suspects. Senator Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Select Committee on Intelligence, called the
roughly 6,000-page report “the most…
Board members and administrators from more than a dozen state-funded charter schools are profiting from their affiliations by doing business with schools they oversee.
The deals, worth more than $70 million over the last five years, are legal, but critics…