New Orleans Panel Rethinks School System
Four months after Hurricane Katrina wiped out large sections of New Orleans, an early outline of a newly configured school system is beginning to emerge—and it looks unlike any other district.
The plan under consideration inverts the typical arrangement, in which schools make up the bottom of the organizational chart, with a broad middle-management layer above them, and the superintendent and school board on top.
Scheduled to be put in final form this week by an education committee of the mayor’s rebuilding commission, the plan envisions a district composed of clusters of schools, each run by a network manager who provides needed support and services. The clusters would be overseen by a chief executive officer and a school board whose job is...
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