Trying to Grow Jobs in the Japanese Disaster Zone

ACORN International Rebuild New Orleans

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

a community voice ACORN Rebuild New Orleans Voting Rights

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 …

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