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Recently, as the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina arrived, the media shined its spotlight on New Orleans’ rebuilding and recovery efforts. Yet relatively little of this cov- erage focused on the city’s public schools. Moreover, the limited coverage of the post- Katrina school system presented a sketchy and incomplete picture of the major structural and operational changes that state officials made to the New Orleans public schools. In the weeks and months after Katrina, many Excerpt from: ‘National Model’ or bold promises were made to reinvigorate the Flawed Approach? A Report by the city’s public schools. In November 2005, Gov. United Teachers of New Orleans, Blanco called for the state to take control over most New Orleans schools, and she vowed to Louisiana Federation of Teachers create a “new birth of excellence and opportu- and the American Federation of nity” for the city’s schoolchildren.” A docu- Teachers, November, 2006. ment by state officials promoting the takeover plan identified the mission of the state-run Recovery School District (RSD) as creating a Linda Stelly “world-class” school system in which “every decision focuses on the best interests of the chil- dren.” In April, Leslie Jacobs, a BESE (Board of Elementary and Secondary
The High School Journal – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 2007
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