Live Chat: New Orleans Schools: Five Years After
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Teachers await students on the first days of school at the New Orleans Charter Science and Math Academy in New Orleans. —Erika Larsen/Redux for Education Week
As schools open across New Orleans this month, you don’t have to look far for signs of how the public education landscape has changed since Hurricane Katrina struck five years ago. Charter schools, only a small presence before the storm, now serve the majority of public school students. Families have the opportunity to send their children to public schools all over the city under the choice-based system now in place. Our discussion will examine how the unprecedented, state-led effort to reinvent public education in New Orleans is faring five years in, and the challenges ahead.
Aesha Rasheed, executive director of the New Orleans Parent Organizing Network, and formerly an education reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune
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