NEW ORLEANS — Once deemed endangered, the site of New Orleans’ first integrated public high school has been revamped as an upscale living facility for local seniors.What started as The ...

After successfully completing a rigorous evaluation process, Mount Carmel Academy has become the first school in New Orleans to receive STEM Certification by Cognia. by: WGNO Web Desk Posted: Jan ...

Known as the "McDonogh Three," Leona Tate, Gail Etienne and Tessie Prevost – along with Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary – integrated New Orleans public schools in 1960, six years ...

Now 61-years-old, Gail Etienne is recalling the day she and three other 6-year-olds made history by being the first to integrate schools in New Orleans. “I was just afraid. I didn’t know what ...

She was one of the first young Black girls who integrated New Orleans public schools after federal courts forced the system to abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. the Board of ...

The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase, came together in just a handful of months.Its opening ends the city’s five-year run as the only all-charter ...

Latanya Evans teaches a first grade class on the first day of school at the Leah Chase School. This is the first new traditional school opened in the New Orleans district since Hurricane Katrina in ...

New Orleans School District Opens First Traditional School Since 2019. Inside NOLA Public Schools' first non-charter school in five years.

Students stand in line at the Leah Chase School, New Orleans' first permanent direct-run school in nearly two decades, on the first day of classes on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. Editor's note: This ...