Robin G. Jarvis has been named the acting superintendent of the 5,300-student Recovery School District in New Orleans, which the state created in 2003 to run schools in the city that are deemed to be failing. Ms. Jarvis, 42, was formerly Louisiana’s assistant state superintendent for the office of student and school performance.
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