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 …
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Democracy and Revenue: Where the New Orleans Autonomous Charter School Model Breaks Down
New Orleans New Orleans continues, past any notion of reality, to be touted as a model example of educational reform because of the huge number of charter schools, mostly run by separate and independent operators. There are many problems with this so-called model, but a huge, glaring deficiency has been the usurpation of any democratic, …
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 …