New Orleans Adopts Plan for Charters
Local, state leaders push for new design for district.
Struggling to jump-start education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the district school board has decided to reopen its first buildings not as regular public schools, but as charter schools.
The board approved an application by representatives of the Algiers neighborhood, on the city’s west bank, to convert all 13 schools there to charter status. Eight are slated to open in November, with the five others to follow.
The Oct. 7 decision came amid ongoing discussions about what form the post- Katrina New Orleans district should take. Years of district infighting, mismanagement, and poor student performance have sparked calls for a profoundly different approach to education after the disaster. ( "New Orleans Eyed as Clean Educational Slate," ...
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