RFP for 2023 Conference presenters!
Our Annual Louisiana Charter School Conference We are excited to announce that our 2023 Louisiana Charter School Conference will be held...
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EBR Charter Renewals
Supt. Narcisse and EBR School Board Members, I’m writing as you take up the renewals for five locally authorized charter schools...
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[Registration Open!] 2022 LAPCS Conference
Registration is now open! Conference 2022 is calling! We are actively and enthusiastically planning LAPCS’ in-person conference for...
Nominate now: 2022 LAPCS Conference Awards
Each year, LAPCS recognizes and celebrates excellence in the Louisiana charter school movement through the Charter School Excellence...
Calling all presenters!
Our Mission: The mission of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools (LAPCS) is to advance equity and educational access...
After 30 years, charter schools growing across Louisiana
Leigh Guidry Lafayette Daily Advertiser Bridget Campbell Winters waited behind a large wooden table to field questions from members of...
Nearly Half of NOLA Charter Public Schools Band Together to Require Staff Vaccinations
Schools hold student and staff safety paramount in the fight against COVID-19. Louisiana data released by the Louisiana Department of...
Role in the community park on Baronne Street earns honors for International High School of New Orlea
BY SUZANNE PFEFFERLE TAFUR | CONTRIBUTING WRITER DEC 31, 2020 – 7:00 AM Richard McCall, left, of the Downtown Development District, and...
‘Some competitive races’: Runoffs abound for Orleans Parish School Board seats
BY DELLA HASSELLE NOV 7, 2020 With only two candidates elected outright to the Orleans Parish School Board during Tuesday’s election, and...
On Hurricane Katrina’s 15th Anniversary, 5 New Orleans Educators Tap Lessons From the Storm to Confr
By Beth Hawkins August 23, 2020 On the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the devastation wrought by the storm and subsequent flood...
The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely
Floodwaters and fear shaped the earliest memories of high school seniors in New Orleans. Now, they’re graduating in the middle of another...
86 Schools, One Goal: How Dozens of New Orleans Educators With Unique Academic Models & Layouts
By Beth Hawkins June 24, 2020 The abrupt COVID-related closing of New Orleans schools was a study in agility. Within hours after...
Louisiana House votes to protect school systems, colleges from coronavirus lawsuits
By Will Sentell June 23, 2020 A bill that would shield public and private school systems from civil lawsuits if students or teachers...
Fifteen black-led New Orleans charter school groups make Juneteenth paid holiday
The Lens by MARTA JEWSON JUNE 18, 2020 Fifteen black-led New Orleans charter school groups — that combined run 31 schools in the city —...
Louisiana officials optimistic on federal approval for plan to revamp public schools
BY WILL SENTELL | wsentell@theadvocate.com Published Jul 13, 2017 at 10:30 am | Updated Jul 13, 2017 at 3:26 pm Top officials of the...
DeVos Urges Charter Advocates to Embrace Wider View of School Choice, Warns Them Not to Become ‘The
By Carolyn Phenicie Washington, D.C. – Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday praised the choice that charter schools provide while...
Charter Schools Are Reinventing Local Control in Education
America’s devotion to local control of schools is dying, but it is also being reborn as a new faith in charter schools. These...
Unification plan for New Orleans public schools leaves officials with lots of decisions to make, dea
The Orleans Parish School Board signed off this week on a step-by-step plan to reclaim the schools it lost to the state after Hurricane...
Louisiana school leader urges classroom discussions on ‘difficult issue of race, conflict̵
Teachers should be preparing to have talks with their students about the killing of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, the...
Education: What the Legislature got right
There is a reason the Louisiana Legislature has stayed true to school improvement based on high standards, accountability and parent and...
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