(NAME-MCE) The Privatization of Education: How New Orleans Went from a Public School System to a Charter-School City

[Paul C. Gorski]

The Privatization of Education: How New Orleans Went from a Public  
School System to a Charter-School City

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/30/145226

While many in New Orleans have waited two years for recovery, the  
restructuring of its schools seemed to happen overnight. Not long  
after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans two years ago, the  
Louisiana legislature cleared the way for the state to assume control  
of 107 out of 128 schools in the Orleans district. The state began  
immediately converting its newly-acquired schools to charter schools.  
We speak with Nat LaCour of the American Federation of Teachers.

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