Dauphine Island “Life happens,” was a quote from one of the three young women from south Texas who believed so completely that education would change their lives, and perhaps more significantly, redirect their fate and future from the path of their parents to a brighter new world of opportunity. The Times story was unfair to these …
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Why are NYC Hedge Funders and Rupert Murdoch messing in a NOLA School Board Race?
New Orleans In the days when New Orleans had a daily paper, it might have been a big issue that hundreds of thousands of dollars in out of state money has flooded one particular school board race. Perhaps not, because those were also the days before Katrina when 100% of the schools in New Orleans …
Charter Schools “Experiment” Still at Odds with Law and Democracy
New Orleans To the degree that many so-called educational “reformers” like to tout New Orleans and the post-Katrina usurpation of much of the school system through federal money bribes and legislative do-overs as a model, it is worth seeing how the tendency to no accountability and educational autocracy continues unabated. The original executive orders that …