The New Orleans City Council and the Orleans Parish School Board are suing Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration to force it to make good on the $20 million settlement it agreed to last year.

Multiple New Orleans Police Department officers are being promoted after a months-long pause. On Monday, Feb. 17, the NOPD hosted a promotion ceremony with New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick at Gallier Hall.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration closed part of the Benson Canal Bridge Wednesday after assessing its structural condition, the city said in a press release.

New Orleans City Council members are expected to decide Thursday whether they will sue Mayor LaToya Cantrell in an effort to force her administration to pay NOLA Public Schools $20 million. Why it matters: Cantrell's administration appears to be backing out on an agreement that the council says was already a done deal to avoid staffing cuts.

At packed city council meeting on Tuesday, city council members grilled city officials over Mayor LaToya Cantrell's decision to back out of a settlement agreement with the school board that would have included $90 million in funding over the next decade and an agreement that the city would stop collecting a 2% fee.

The New Orleans City Council has taken the first steps towards zeroing out Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s travel and entertainment budget after her administration claimed city finances are so dire it must impose a new period of austerity and budget cuts,

New Orleans CAO at the center of controversy as Mayor Cantrell backs out of schools agreement

Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration cited major money problems as a reason it wouldn't fulfill a settlement deal between it, the New Orleans City Council and the school board. But the administration has yet to show any evidence that's actually the case.

The New Orleans City Council has joined the Orleans Parish School Board's lawsuit against Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration, arguing that the School Board is owed millions and that Cantrell cannot back out of a deal to pay it that her administration agreed to three months ago.

The New Orleans City Council has taken the first steps towards zeroing out Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s travel and entertainment budget after her administration claimed city finances are so dire it must impose a new period of austerity and budget cuts,

Cantrell spokesman Terry Davis ran interference for the mayor, saying the administration and charter school officials met Wednesday to discuss a path forward.