This week on Behind The Lens: NOLA Public schools makes their case for a complete roll-forward of their property tax millage, which will increase their budget in light of skyrocketing property tax assessments.

School assessment grades are in, City Council approves new electric and gas rates, and an Algiers home belonging to Senator Troy Carter goes up in flames.

InspireNOLA takes over the charter for Pierre A. Capdau, controversy over the appraisal for a new oil terminal in Plaquemines Parish, and the City Council begins working on the 2020 budget.

An agreement is reached for a new hotel at the Convention Center, two charter schools are expected to get a failing rating and have their charter removed, and the Coalition Against Death Alley marches to Baton Rouge to protest a Formosa plastics plant.

With a 2020 budget now in the hands of City Council, the big debate remains what to do about property taxes. Lawyers file a personal injury suit related to the Hard Rock Hotel collapse, as local businesses are feeling an impact while they try to mainta...

NOLA Public Schools begins its city-wide audit of student records, the City Planning Commission votes against a proposal to add beds at the New Orleans jail, technology is helping pinpoint the impacts of the Bonnet Carre spillway diversion,

NOLA Public Schools issues a report on its investigation of John F. Kennedy High School, the Orleans Parish Assessor gets caught defending a policy that his staff later said was never really a policy, and residents of the toxic Gordon Plaza housing dev...

City Council weighs the property tax rate as a budget deadline looms, KIPP New Orleans edges closer to the New Orleans Public Schools' enrollment cap, and a statewide effort to register Louisiana's 36,000 re-enfranchised voters.

A charter group might lose Coghill school, as seven schools face renewal this year; the RTA and Convention Center could go to court over tax revenue; and local students take part in the Global Climate Strike.

The impact that industrial farms are having on local fishermen and the Gulf Dead Zone, verifying record keeping on the Industrial Tax Exemption Program, and why Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is bringing her fair election fight to Louisiana.