Worry Mounting Over New Orleans Schools
As reform ideas compete, lack of coordination said to be causing confusion.
As many people and organizations jostle to play roles in the rebirth of the New Orleans public schools, worry is mounting that the process lacks a strong, central force to forge a coherent vision.
Some advocates and educators are concerned that the uncertainty could allow the deeply troubled district that existed even before Hurricane Katrina to re-establish itself. Others worry that the fresh ideas being offered might not get traction, or that a piecemeal approach could produce a system of uneven quality.
The short-term effort to reopen enough schools to serve the 3,700 or so children projected to return soon to the flood-damaged city is itself fractured. The district school board is divided over whether the first schools to open should be regular schools or charter schools, and the effort to create charter schools was temporarily blocked by a local judge. ( "Judge Rules New Orleans Board Must Revote on Charters," ...
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