Aubri Juhasz
Aubri Juhasz is the education reporter for New Orleans Public Radio. Before coming to New Orleans, she was a producer for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She helped lead the show's technology and book coverage and reported her own feature stories, including the surge in cycling deaths in New York City and the decision by some states to offer competitive video gaming to high school students as an extracurricular activity.
She grew up on Long Island and holds a bachelor's degree in English and political science from Barnard College, Columbia University.
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Some Louisiana parents will soon have the option to decide whether to send their child back to school or keep them at home following a suspected COVID-19 exposure.
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More than 72,000 K-12 students in Louisiana have not returned to the classroom since Hurricane Ida hit late last month, Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley told state legislative members during a Tuesday meeting.
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More than 45,000 students in the state’s hard-hit River Parishes could face a month or more of school closures due to ongoing power outages, lack of running water and significant structural damage.
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Louisiana's K-12 students started the school year almost fully in-person. But almost two weeks after Hurricane Ida hit, more than 250,000 students are again waiting for their classrooms to reopen.
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Recovery is slow going in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida stormed ashore on Sunday. Rescue crews are still trying to get into hard hit areas as residents cope with the prospect of no power for weeks.
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For some, this isn’t the first time they’ve hunkered down during a storm, and Ida brought back the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans 16 years ago to the day that Ida made landfall.
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Ahead of Tropical Storm Ida's arrival to southeast Louisiana as a strong Category 3 Hurricane either Sunday or Monday, residents were preparing for what's to come and officials were closing public spaces.
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COVID cases have been reported at all but a handful of Louisiana school districts
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Due to the current surge of cases of the delta variant of COVID-19, Louisiana is dangerously low on intensive care unit beds, according to the latest data on COVID-19 from the state's health department.
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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a legal opinion Friday that said the state’s top school board, not Gov. John Bel Edwards, has the authority to dictate masking policies in public schools.