Tokyo The population losses in Ishinomaki and Onagawa were different than New Orleans. After Katrina, a city that had evacuated was (is!) unable to return with 80% of the housing flooded. The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the tsunami that followed virtually wiped out everything in its path, killed, destroyed, and returned to the sea. …
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Charter Schools Continue to Resist Accountability and Transparency
New Orleans New Orleans is widely considered the vanguard of the charter school movement. Since the usurpation of the school system by the state in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, charter schools of all shapes, sizes, and varieties have been the norm. It’s hard to tell in most ways how this grand experiment is working …
Two-Tiered Teacher Pay and Anti-Unionism Are Charter School Issues
New Orleans In the wake of the Chicago teachers’ strike there is a lot of talk about the real issues provoking the strike. The Times seems them as trivial. There’s a lot of ink pitting it as a personality problem between the prickly and notoriously difficult Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and the every bit his equal, …