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Orleans Public Schools gets help from city with budget deficit [Video]

The Orleans Parish School Board with the help of officials from the City of New Orleans has made up a portion of a deficit in the school district’s budget. An accounting error left the district with a $36 million deficit. The error was found in recent weeks; however, the district’s financial struggles date back years. The school board approached the City of New Orleans in 2018 regarding money they believed the district was owed through taxes. In 2019, the school board sued the city for those funds, and Monday’s agreement was the beginning of a discussion on terms for a settlement. It was announced in a news conference that the city of New Orleans would provide a total of $20 million to the school district to help bridge the gap in their funding problem. The first $10 million would be allocated this year, with an additional $10 million on April …

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New Year's Resolution Bootstrap a Startup with a Paycheck and 1Mby1M [Video]

We are in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of tech businesses have already been built successfully. Let's learn from those who have come before us. Girish Navani started eClinicalWorks, a healthcare IT venture by bootstrapping with a paycheck. Girish scaled to over $500M in revenue. Since 2006, I have spent thousands of hours interviewing successful entrepreneurs. Listening. Asking questions. Understanding. Extrapolating. Learning about their mistakes. Capturing their lessons from the trenches. I encapsulated their anecdotal knowledge into Methodology. I have been running One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) since 2010. Our unwavering mission has been to democratize entrepreneurship education, incubation and acceleration. What is Core Startup Methodology? Bootstrapping. Positioning. Market Sizing. Customer Validation. Customer Acquisition. Financing. Team Building. We have to learn Domain Specific nuances. We call them Electives. Artificial Intelligence. Machine