Nine metro-area students are among the many 21 finalists announced Tuesday for the state Student of the Year awards. The New Orleans Business Alliance and United Way are partnering with New Orleans’ three traditionally Black universities to reduce the financial burden on students and encourage them to remain in New Orleans after commencement. Field of candidates for New Orleans schools superintendent cut from 15 to 7. Dillard, Xavier and Southern targeted in current weeks, as have been different Black colleges in U.S. The Orleans Parish School Board officially reversed the 100-year-old ban on jazz music and jazz dancing in faculties, unanimously voting to overturn the rule that, though unenforced, remained unnoticed on the books for a century.
Thomas Jefferson High School eradicated standardized checks and made other changes to attract more Black and Hispanic students. Prep Programs Sound the Alarm Colleges of education grapple with a downward development in students, …