New Orleans Sees School Building Boom

Autor/in	Robelen, Erik W.
Titel	New Orleans Sees School Building Boom
Quelle	In: Education Week, 30 (2010) 8, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	School Buildings; Public Education; Educational Facilities Improvement; Construction Programs; Construction Needs; School Construction; Federal Aid; Natural Disasters; Educational Facilities Design; Conflict; Accountability; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School building; Schulgebäude; Öffentliche Erziehung; Baumaßnahme; Schulbau; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Konflikt; Verantwortung
Abstract	Efforts to reinvent public education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina have drawn such interest that it's easy to lose sight of some very concrete changes that will become obvious over time: A generation of brand-new school buildings is rising across the city. New Orleans is in the early stages of a construction spree both to build and renovate dozens of schools, and recently got news of an eye-popping settlement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, under which the federal government is providing more than $1.8 billion to cover storm-related damages to schools. The $1.8 billion, federally funded effort aims to deal with the physical damage still evident from Hurricane Katrina five years after the storm. In August, five years after Katrina struck, the Recovery School District opened a new $54 million high school in the Algiers section of the city. That was in addition to the construction of another new high school and an elementary school completed within the past year, as well as recent major renovations to several other facilities. While the massive construction initiative and the settlement with FEMA are welcome news in the city, some observers argue that state and local officials have set themselves up for trouble in how the process is moving forward. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10