Hope after Katrina: Will New Orleans become the New City of Choice?

Autor/inn/en	Newmark, Kathryn G.; De Rugy, Veronique
Titel	Hope after Katrina: Will New Orleans become the New City of Choice?
Quelle	In: Education Next, 6 (2006) 4, S.12-21 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	School Districts; Public Education; Public Schools; High Stakes Tests; Educational Finance; Natural Disasters; Charter Schools; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; Öffentliche Erziehung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bildungsfonds; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung
Abstract	A student starting public school in New Orleans in the fall of 2005 had little reason to be hopeful about her education. Of her 65,000 schoolmates in the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS), over half of those taking the state's high-stakes tests (4th, 8th, 10th, and 11th graders) did not have "basic" competence in math and English. 68 of the 108 NOPS schools receiving performance labels had been rated "academically unacceptable" by the Louisiana Department of Education, 13 more than just the year before. A student starting school in New Orleans in the fall of 2006, on the other hand, has some reason for optimism. There are now only an estimated 22,000 students and 57 schools in the district. Very few of them are being run by the New Orleans Public Schools. More than half the schools are charters and anxious to please, offering new curricula, longer school days, even special summer sessions. What happened? The short answer is Katrina, the category 3 hurricane that pounded southeast Louisiana the morning of August 29, 2005, and devastated New Orleans, including its schools. The longer answer is that the destruction, terrible as it was, may prove to be the salvation of a school district that had been drowning for years. Politicians, educators, and parents, long frustrated with the state of public education in New Orleans, suddenly had the opportunity, as the waters receded, to build, almost from scratch, a new school system. This article describes the state's plan to reform the district's school system and transform the way education is delivered. (Contains 3 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10