Education Groups Hustle to Find Alternate Conference Sites
The devastation of New Orleans has left the National Association of Secondary School Principals rushing to find an alternative city to host its annual conference. Scheduled years in advance, its meeting next March was set for the Big Easy until Hurricane Katrina washed those plans away.
The National School Boards Association has an even larger conference scheduled in New Orleans next April. It hadn’t canceled its plans as of late last week.
“I did inform [the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau] that we were looking at other options, just in case,” said Robin Preston, the Alexandria, Va.,...
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