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New Orleans

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, officials dramatically remade the long-struggling education system in New Orleans, turning it into the nation’s first all charter-school system. Our stories will look at what’s working — and what’s not — in the nation’s largest, most ambitious experiment with school decentralization.

pay teachers more
Posted inOpinion

After coronavirus subsides, we must pay teachers more

Avatar photo by Andre Perry March 30, 2020October 21, 2020
kids in court
Posted inNews

No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl March 23, 2020October 21, 2020
African Diaspora 
Posted inNews

Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare Black students for college

Casey Parks by Casey Parks March 17, 2020February 14, 2024
college campuses closing
Posted inOpinion

Closing campuses doesn’t necessarily move vulnerable people out of harm’s way

Avatar photo by Andre Perry March 16, 2020April 8, 2021
TOPS
Posted inNews

How Louisiana’s richest students go to college on the backs of the poor

Avatar photo by Emmanuel Felton October 30, 2019April 8, 2021
teaching in New Orleans
Posted inColumnists

For better student outcomes, hire more black teachers

Avatar photo by Andre Perry October 15, 2019October 21, 2020
Sci Academy
Posted inNews

Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

Casey Parks by Casey Parks September 30, 2019April 8, 2021
AI
Posted inElementary to High School

AI can disrupt racial inequity in schools, or make it much worse

Avatar photo by Andre Perry and Nicol Turner-Lee September 25, 2019October 21, 2020
African American teachers
Posted inNews

Two percent of teachers are black men. A city is trying to recruit more.

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl September 10, 2019October 21, 2020
Posted inNews

New Orleans loses teachers at double the rate of other cities like it

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl September 9, 2019October 21, 2020

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