New Orleans Schools
Recovery & Reform
School Climate & Safety
Q & A With New Orleans’ Security Chief
Eddie Compass, the well-known former superintendent of police in New Orleans and now director for security and safety for the Recovery School District, sat down recently with Education Week to talk about his new job and his approach to school security.
Federal
Grassroots New Orleans Charter Gives Students ‘Critical Care’
Overseen by a group of veteran Orleans Parish educators, McDonogh 42 school is the first of three elementary schools that the group intends to open in the neighborhood that sits just a few blocks north of the French Quarter.
School Climate & Safety
Up From the Ruins
State and district leaders are tackling dilemmas school by school as they struggle to rebuild and repair campus buildings in New Orleans.
Teaching
New Orleans School Bands Strutting Once More
Private donors and outside organizations are helping to provide new instruments after Katrina left band rooms in ruins.
School Climate & Safety
Smooth Opening Is Job One in New Orleans
Today is the first day of school for more than 13,000 children enrolled in the Recovery School District, the state-run system that took over most of this city’s public schools in the months after Hurricane Katrina hit two years ago.
School & District Management
New Orleans Education Resources
A collection of education-related organizations and reports on the recovery and reform of the New Orleans school district.
School & District Management
Q & A With Paul G. Vallas
The new superintendent of the state-run Recovery School District in New Orleans spoke to Education Week’s Lesli A. Maxwell on July 18, seven weeks before the first day of the 2007-08 school year.
School & District Management
City Yearns for Rebirth Among Ruin
Educators in New Orleans, as they did last school year, are scrambling to repair enough buildings by Sept. 4, opening day in the Recovery School District.