New Orleans In New Orleans we have the most massive “charterization” of a public school system in America thanks to some fumbles and bait-and-switch plays immediately after Katrina. The public school system is bifurcated between a small number of schools (many of them charters) governed by the citizen elected members of the Orleans Parish School …
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No Account and No Accountability Charter Schools
New aOrleans Few do not know that New Orleans schools are “ground zero” in the so-called “reform” movement to privatize public school systems with charter schools. With the excuse of Hurricane Katrina the State of Louisiana, which had never run a school (never, ever!) in a wink-and-nod deal took a $20 million federal carrot to …
Access to Higher Ed for Lower Income and Working Students
New Orleans Props to David Leonhardt, the Times financial columnist, and Louis Menard, the oft published New Yorker critic at large for raising the issue of both opportunity, access, and value for higher education for the masses. Leonhardt did so in a recent column about the job shift of the former president of Amherst who …