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Photo Gallery: Big Easy Summer

New Orleans is one of a handful of cities that have enhanced their summer programs with creative funding and partnerships. In this slide show, Education Week shows the impact of a New Orleans Recreation Development Commission camp and other summer programs that are helping low income students in the hurricane-ravaged Treme neighborhood, where youngsters have historically had few opportunities to prevent summer learning loss.
New Orleans is one of a handful of cities that have enhanced their summer programs with creative funding and partnerships. In this slide show, Education Week shows the impact of a New Orleans Recreation Development Commission camp and other summer programs that are helping low income students in the hurricane-ravaged Treme neighborhood, where youngsters have historically had few opportunities to prevent summer learning loss.

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Photos by Matthew Hinton for Education Week

A version of this article appeared in the July 13, 2011 edition of Education Week as Photo Gallery: Big Easy Summer