| By KASEY BUBNASH | Staff writer |
Good morning and thanks for joining us. Here are some of today's top headlines. Post-Katrina overhaul: The devastation that followed Hurricane Katrina opened the door for one of the most drastic overhauls of a school system in American history. But did it help or hurt students? Marie Fazio has this look at the results 20 years later. ICE raid: Federal agents last week detained at least 15 immigrant workers at the site of a major New Orleans flood control project. The massive sweep, as James Finn and Ben Myers report, highlights the tension between Trump’s immigration crackdown and Louisiana’s reliance on migrant labor. Massey's message: Videos that appeared to show New Orleans jail fugitive Antoine Massey pleading his innocence spread across social media Monday, forcing authorities to scramble in their third week searching for the two escapees still on the run. John Simerman has the latest. Thanks for reading. Check back throughout the day for more news, entertainment and sports from The Times-Picayune. |