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111 Search Results Found For: "orleans school"

  • Here’s What New Orleans’ Library Budget-Slashing Tax Proposal Means For Early Education

    The future of New Orleans’ publicly funded childcare program is now tied to a controversial tax proposal that slashes the library’s budget by 40 percent. Proposition 2 reduces the existing propert
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  • Our Views: Vote no on New Orleans millages, city can come up with a better plan

    Mayor LaToya Cantrell is asking New Orleans voters to approve three interrelated millages on Dec. 5 that wouldn’t increase residents’ total tax bills, but would reallocate the proceeds for 20 year
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  • Property taxes for New Orleans homes have surged; now businesses could get a huge tax cut

    Over the past two years, thousands of homeowners across New Orleans have opened unwelcome letters from the Orleans Parish assessor’s office providing notice of big jumps in the assessed values o
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  • Baton Rouge, New Orleans area People in Business for Aug. 30, 2020

    New Orleans area The Bureau of Governmental Research announced the recipients of its 2020 BGR Excellence in Government Awards  honoring extraordinary local and state government employees and priva
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  • BGR School Funding Guide Can Inform Sales Tax, Other Policy Discussions

    One of the fiscal consequences of the public health emergency for New Orleans K-12 public education is plunging sales tax revenue. Reduced national and global travel and the Louisiana’s stay-at-home
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  • Major labor union threatens to cancel convention in New Orleans if Convention Center doesn’t address local workers’ demands for relief

    The Communications Workers of America, the largest communications and media labor union in the country, is threatening to pull its August 2021 convention if the center doesn’t negotiate with local g
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  • New Resource for Understanding Public Education Funding in New Orleans

    Like the rest of the community, our attention is focused on the threats posed by COVID-19. At the same time, our work concentrates on issues that are critical to the long-term welfare of our city and
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  • Coronavirus response to leave ‘gigantic hole’ in New Orleans economy; Cantrell weighs layoffs

    The coronavirus outbreak and the efforts to slow its spread are set to levy a massive toll on the New Orleans economy, with the hospitality sector already seeing a sharp downturn in business and offic
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  • ‘The Second Battle of New Orleans’ republished for 50th anniversary of end to Riverfront Expressway fight

    If you’re really lucky, at least once in your life you cross paths with someone truly extraordinary. I was very blessed to spend time with Bill Borah during his last years. He was an exceptionally i
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  • New Orleans City Council wants nonprofits to pay more in taxes, but obstacles are many

    The New Orleans City Council is looking for ways to get nonprofits to contribute more to the city’s bottom line — the latest in a long string of attempts to get properties that are exempt from ta
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