Lusher Charter School student Autumn Routt wins prestigious Jefferson Scholarship to attend the University of Virginia

Autumn Routt, a senior at Lusher Charter School, has been awarded one of the most highly selective merit scholarships in the nation. The Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia selected Autumn as one of 38 recipients of the Jefferson Scholarship. She will...

Lusher Kindergarteners to pay tribute to Lusher Charter graduating seniors at morning meeting

Lusher Kindergarteners to Pay Tribute to Lusher Charter Graduating Seniors at Morning Meeting Little ones will sing, dance and give special hand-made mortar board hats  WHAT:      About 50 graduating Lusher Charter School Seniors will visit the Lusher Lower School Campus...

Morris Jeff Community School Students Perform Global Folktales

May 7, 2019Contact: Heather Harper (504) 289-0499 or hharper@h2nola.netMorris Jeff Community School Students Perform Global FolktalesRecently, the Morris Jeff Community School International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP) Arts Department put on it's first musical! Three fourth...

Lusher Senior gets $2.6M in scholarships; accepted at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT & More

Lusher Charter School Senior Amaris Lewis Accepted into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MITOffered Gates full scholarship to any U.S. university; scholarships totaling over $2.6 million           When Lusher Charter School Senior Amaris Lewis won the Grand Prize Award...

ArtsSpark: Igniting the Power of Arts” arts-integration PD session on May 24

mindSpark Learning Partners with Lusher Charter School to Host Professional Development Session“ArtsSpark: Igniting the Power of Arts” will teach arts integration methods to interested teachers in New Orleans area  In partnership with mindSpark Learning, Lusher Charter School will host...

Lusher Charter School Students to Test Their New Invention Designed to Combat Coastal Erosion

In conjunction with Common Ground Relief and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the students will be testing the latest model of the device on Friday, April 19, 10 a.m. on Bayou Bienvenue. The students will go out on two boats to test the device. The boat launch is located at 2001...

Young Audiences Charter School to Host Open House on April 24

Young Audiences Charter School: Academic Excellence with an Artistic Edge Young Audiences Charter School to Host Open House on April 24 Arts-integrated school expanding to high school in 2019    Young Audiences Charter School (YACS), the only arts-integrated charter school in...

Audubon Charter School-Gentilly to Hold “Fais Do-Do” on May 11

Audubon Charter School-Gentilly to Hold “Fais Do-Do” on May 11 The “school fair with cultural flair” will celebrate school’s first year Audubon Charter School- Gentilly will celebrate the end of its first year with an inaugural “Fais Do-Do” community...

Hynes Charter Schools Appoints an Executive Director of School Operations, and Principals for Lakeview & UNO Campuses for the 2019-20 School Year

Hynes Charter Schools CEO, Michelle Douglas, has announced three new appointments in its administration for the 2019-20 school year: Shawn Persick as Hynes Charter Schools Executive Director of School Operations, Anne Kramer as Principal of Hynes Charter School-Lakeview, and Brittany...

Franklin Society of Women Engineers to Host STEM Day for Local Girls

CONTACT: Eve Peyton ’98 (504) 503-0062 or epeyton@bfhsla.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENEW ORLEANS (April 10, 2019) – On Saturday, April 13, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Benjamin Franklin High School’s Society of Women Engineers, the first high school chapter in the state of...