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#OPINION The writers, an educator and a parent who works as an advocate within schools, contend that the state takeover removed Black teachers who provided continuity and did not improve academic outcomes for Black students...

✍ Ashana Bigard and Elizabeth K. Jeffers

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#TheLensNola🔍 If parents notice their child struggling academically or facing more discipline in school, it may be time for a special education evaluation. Roughly 15% of students in Louisiana have special education plans.

✍️ Marta Jewson

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#OPINION In recent months, public officials rushed to the microphone to take credit when the crime rate dropped. Will they now rush back to the microphone and take blame when the crime rate rises?

✍️ Arthur Hunter Jr.

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#TheLensNola🔍 Tulane University terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she’d helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected...

✍Delaney Nolan

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#tulaneuniversity #academicdirector #gaza

#TheLensNola🔍 "Intentionally or not, Trump is adding weight to this burden that women are already carrying as family health managers."

✍Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th

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#childhoodvaccines #vaccinedelay #presidenttrump

#TheLensNola🔍 Expensive calls force families to choose between paying bills and staying connected to loved ones.

✍Bernard Smith

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#federalcommunicationscommission #neworleansjusticecenter #jailphonecalls

#OPINION "NOLA Cannabis Co. is preparing to open the first medical marijuana dispensary at 1407 S. Carrollton Ave., in the Historic Urban Neighborhood of Carrollton, where we both live."

✍Betty DiMarco and Lane Trippe

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#nolacannabisco #carroltonavenue #TheLensNola🔍

#TheLensNola🔍 Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals.

✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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#smittyssupply #hazardouspollution #tangipohoaparish

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#TheLensNola🔍 Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises.

✍Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon | Floodlight

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#climaterelocation #isledejeancharles #environmentalnews

#TheLensNola🔍 A new report warns that Big Tech’s rapid buildout of data centers across the South could usher in a new wave of environmental and economic harms for Black and working-class communities...

✍️ Gus Bennett

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#TheLensNola🔍 With New Orleans’s fall elections just weeks away, I have been combing through the published platforms of the people running to serve as New Orleans’s next mayor, councilmember, and assessor.

✍️ Aron Chang

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#TheLensNola🔍 A new Tulane University study on brown anoles could offer a better understanding of lead poisoning...

✍Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator

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#brownanolelizards #tulaneuniversity #leadpoisoning

#TheLensNola🔍 Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

✍️ Delaney Nolan, The Lens and Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews

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#TheLensNola🔍 Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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#TheLensNola🔍 A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison.

✍️ Lawson Strickland

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#TheLensNola🔍 Order continues for the second consecutive summer. Once the heat index hits 88 degrees, the DOC must provide some relief to the men working for pennies an hour in the prison’s fields.

✍️ Bernard Smith

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#TheLensNola🔍 Though Louisiana legislators passed a statewide ban against physical punishment in 2023, parents can still give permission for their children to be physically disciplined.

✍️ Marta Jewson

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#TheLensNola🔍 In the wake of the recent explosion in Roseland, a flow of unidentified contaminants –– black, oily, and smelling like asphalt –– has made its way down the Tangipahoa River and is visible at least as far downriver as Ponchatoula.

✍Delaney Nolan

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#TheLensNola🔍 Inspired by the floodwaters after Katrina and the birth of his son, photographer Gus Bennett created a new photography series, Organic Watermarks

✍️ Gus Bennett

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#OrganicWatermarks #photography #katrina20yearslater

#TheLensNola🔍 Within the Orleans Parish Prison jail, thousands of people remained trapped inside as the floodwaters rose higher by the hour.

✍Bernard Smith

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#TheLensNola🔍 The global music star, whose hometown of New Orleans was devastated in 2005 by the hurricane and subsequent levee engineering failures, says ‘people power’ can change the world.

✍Mark Hertsgaard, The Guardian

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#TheLensNola🔍 KIPP New Orleans pushed ‘college for all’ in its early years. Schools are now adding career and personal counseling, and offering technical education courses.

✍Sarah Carr

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#kippschools #collegeforall #neworleans

#TheLensNola🔍 Even as New Orleans marks the 20-year anniversary of one of the federal government’s greatest failures, close observers warn that recent FEMA changes could set the stage for history to repeat itself.

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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#TheLensNola🔍 On Friday evening, The Contemporary Arts Center will host an exhibit for Danette Vincent’s Katrina Camera Kids, who picked up cameras for the first time after the storm and ended up capturing important moments in their lives.

✍Kelly Dorsey Parker

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The barriers built to protect New Orleans may already be breaking down. Reporter Delaney Nolan joins #behindthelenspodcast🎙️ to uncover the corrosion threatening the city’s future asking: what if the billions spent to protect New Orleans aren’t enough?

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