New Orleans School District Closes ALL City Run Public Schools Permanently - You Think This Would Be Nationwide News!!


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What a great start!

In New Orleans, major school district closes traditional public schools for good

NEWORLEANS371401210066.jpg Akili Academy first-grader Kyron Bourgeois, 6, raises his hand in the class of Hannah Bunis on May 27, 2014 in New Orleans. Akili Academy in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans will be absorbing some students from the city's closing public schools. (Edmund D. Fountain/For The Washington Post)

Astonishing chance for these children to excel:

NEW ORLEANS — The second-graders paraded to the Dumpster in the rear parking lot, where they chucked boxes of old worksheets, notebooks and other detritus into the trash, emptying their school for good.

Benjamin Banneker Elementary closed Wednesday as New Orleans’s Recovery School District permanently shuttered its last five traditional public schools this week.

With the start of the next school year, the Recovery School District will be the first in the country made up completely of public charter schools, a milestone for New Orleans and a grand experiment in urban education for the nation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-new-orleans-traditional-public-schools-close-for-good/2014/05/28/ae4f5724-e5de-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html?hpid=z1

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The school systems (yep plural because there's such diversity here) in this area are nothing less than interesting to watch play out. What takes a lot of people by surprise with the charter schools in and around NOLA is that the movement is not made up of who you might think. These are not conservatives driving this change.

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The school systems (yep plural because there's such diversity here) in this area are nothing less than interesting to watch play out. What takes a lot of people by surprise with the charter schools in and around NOLA is that the movement is not made up of who you might think. These are not conservatives driving this change.

Deanna:

Thanks for the info.

Not surprising to me.

However. who is behind it?

A...

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The school systems (yep plural because there's such diversity here) in this area are nothing less than interesting to watch play out. What takes a lot of people by surprise with the charter schools in and around NOLA is that the movement is not made up of who you might think. These are not conservatives driving this change.

Deanna:

Thanks for the info.

Not surprising to me.

However. who is behind it?

A...

As with life in general in this area, it's a very diverse group, from the hippy dippy granola types to straight-laced military types. The people I know who are the most supportive of charter schools are refreshingly apolitical. Not that they have no politics but that they don't equate education with politics. The one thing they have in common is a desire to improve education. That said, they are mostly liberals.

Also, it's worth noting that greater NOLA is not indicative of the rest of the country. There's a long history of private education here, and magnet schools have been booming for a while. Add a hurricane that devastated the already failing public school system to the mix, and you get a unique environment for evolution. I don't know that the strategy would translate well to other areas.

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The school systems (yep plural because there's such diversity here) in this area are nothing less than interesting to watch play out. What takes a lot of people by surprise with the charter schools in and around NOLA is that the movement is not made up of who you might think. These are not conservatives driving this change.

Deanna:

Thanks for the info.

Not surprising to me.

However. who is behind it?

A...

As with life in general in this area, it's a very diverse group, from the hippy dippy granola types to straight-laced military types. The people I know who are the most supportive of charter schools are refreshingly apolitical. Not that they have no politics but that they don't equate education with politics. The one thing they have in common is a desire to improve education. That said, they are mostly liberals.

Also, it's worth noting that greater NOLA is not indicative of the rest of the country. There's a long history of private education here, and magnet schools have been booming for a while. Add a hurricane that devastated the already failing public school system to the mix, and you get a unique environment for evolution. I don't know that the strategy would translate well to other areas.

Deanna:

I beleive you are spot on.

I thought that one factor would have been the French influence in law and the ward system. Additionally, that independent Carribean Island influence also.

Thks again for the great field report to us Yankees!

A...

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