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, …
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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 …
The Exposed, Soft Underbelly of the Unsustainability of Charter School System
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 …