The one on his mind now has to do with John McDonogh High School on Esplanade Avenue. Jogn McCusker, Times-Picayune archiveStill haunted by a 2003 shooting, John McDonogh High School languishes ...

John Mac reopened with high hopes in August 2012. It received $800,000 in start-up funding, which Barr promised to use for iPads. In its charter application, it projected 525 students and a middle ...

The old John McDonogh High School building on Esplanade Avenue was gleaming Friday morning as children zipped up its historic staircase, through its sleek hallways and into classrooms newly ...

The historic John McDonogh High School opened more than a century ago but its last few years have been marked by controversy and turmoil. Skip to content. NOWCAST WDSU News at 6am.

NEW ORLEANS — This week the community will have a chance to weigh in on the future of John McDonogh High School at two public meetings. John McDonogh Senior High School is undergoing renovations ...

Though it wasn’t given a number like the other schools, John McDonogh High School stood on Esplanade Avenue for more than 90 years. “John Mac,” as it commonly was called, closed in 2014.

John Van Meter, a retired McDonogh School English and drama director ... He was a 1964 graduate of Twin Lakes High School and earned a bachelor of arts at DePauw University. While an undergraduate ...

If a former college basketball coach has his way, John McDonogh High School will be transformed into a first-class culinary institution. In announcing the launch of a culinary academy at the school ...

At John McDonogh High School in this city's Esplanade Ridge district, the new superintendent points to a broken window boarded up with plastic. Nobody thought to fix it properly.

Last spring, after more than 100 years and a lot of controversy, John McDonogh High School closed its doors. The building is undergoing a $34 million renovation, but it's still not clear what kind ...

John Van Meter, a retired McDonogh School English and drama director recalled for his bold and imaginative interpretations of theater, died of complications of hypertension and sepsis Feb. 24 at ...