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The Rise of Career-Connected Learning
The Success Story You Haven’t Heard Enough About There is a quiet revolution happening in New Orleans public schools, and it is changing the trajectory of our students’ lives. It’s called Career-Connected Learning. At its core, Career-Connected Learning links education with real-world career experiences. For those of us in earlier generations, “VoTech” or “Shop” may…
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2025 School and District Performance Scores
The state has released the 2025 School Performance Scores. It was a good year! District Performance New Orleans Earns a B for the first time EVER!!! Congratulations to everyone for a milestone accomplishment The District Performance Score (DPS) is the most comprehensive measurement of student performance. It rolls up the data on all students, all…
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The Leah Chase School: Time to Course-Correct
In February 2024, the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) directed the superintendent to open a District-operated elementary school, The Leah Chase School, starting with grades K-5. Now in its second year, the school serves around 340 students in grades K-6. Prior to this Board action, all schools in the District (NOLA-PS) were charter schools. So…how’s…
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A Fight Worth Fighting
For decades, tens of millions of dollars that were approved by voters for classrooms, teachers, and students have been diverted and pocketed by the City of New Orleans. The City’s actions are unconstitutional and must end! Since a 1941 ruling, the Louisiana Supreme Court has made it clear – repeatedly – that the City of…
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A personal message from Leslie
Dear Friends and Readers, It is with the utmost gratitude for your ongoing support, engagement, and partnership that I inform you this will be my last post with Educate Now!. In August of 2008, when Educate Now! was born, the education landscape in this city was complicated, to say the least. We were still putting…
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ICYMI: What’s New in 2017-18
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) … Your mini news clippings What’s New in 2017-18 Work will begin to create a new high school Career and Technical Center that will provide advanced training for interested students in fields like health sciences, IT, and skilled crafts or trades. The center has secured initial grant funding and is working…
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2017 ACT and EOC Results
x The state has released ACT and End of Course test scores for 2016-17. New Orleans schools (OPSB + RSD) held steady on the ACT, but the results for End of Course Tests were disappointing. The average ACT Composite Score was 18.9, the same as in 2015-16. The state’s Composite Score increased slightly from 19.5 to…
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K-8 Test Scores Released
K-8 Student Performance Stalls The state has released the results of the 2016-17 LEAP tests for grades 3-8. While a number of New Orleans schools showed improvement, fewer students overall met the new more rigorous Mastery standard, and the city fell in state rankings. New Orleans student performance in English decreased from 35% to 34% Mastery…
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ICYMI: Local Innovation in National Spotlight
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) … Your mini news clippings Local Innovation in the National Spotlight The Carnegie Corporation profiled EdNavigator, a local nonprofit that works with companies to identify and support working parents who need help navigating the school system and advocating for their children. New Orleans’ own unCommon Construction won a national…
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Latest Cohort Graduation Rates Released
4-Year Cohort Graduation Rates Released The Orleans Parish School Board and Recovery School District have released the latest 4-year cohort graduation rates. The citywide 4-year graduation rate was 72.1% for the class of 2016,1 a drop of 3.3 percentage points from 2015. Twenty percent of the students who did not graduate in four years remained…
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