September 30, 2010 – 1:37 am
Myth 1: New Orleans schools weren’t that bad before the storm. Fact: New Orleans battled it out with St. Helena Parish for the lowest performing district in one of the lowest performing states in the country.
August 29, 2010 – 8:51 pm
Five years ago yesterday, the levees broke. Hurricane Katrina flooded roughly 80% of this city, causing nearly $100 billion in damage. The storm forced us to rebuild our homes, workplaces, and many of our institutions – including our failing public education system. But from the flood waters, the most market-driven public school system in the [...]
August 9, 2010 – 11:10 pm
After Hurricane Katrina, state officials faced a choice: Take control of the schools in New Orleans or leave them in the care of the city’s notoriously troubled School Board. A takeover was risky. New Orleans Public Schools were among the worst in the nation. Most New Orleans legislators opposed state action. More daunting, any reasonable [...]
August 5, 2010 – 12:00 pm
Yesterday, the Department of Education announced the winners of the highly competitive Investing in Innovation, or i3, grants. There were 49 winners from a pool of 1698 applicants nationwide. New Orleans own New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) is a winner! And they will receive over $28 million to support school turnarounds in New Orleans, [...]
Pre-Katrina, New Orleans had one of the worst dropout rates in Louisiana, and Louisiana had one of the worst dropout rates in the nation. Educate Now! was curious to know how New Orleans is doing today. We hadn’t seen any dropout data for New Orleans since Katrina, so we contacted the Louisiana Department of Education [...]
Student performance continues to rise! The recently released 2010 Test Scores are great news for New Orleans. Across the city, student achievement continues to improve. For the third year in a row, more students passed the high-stakes LEAP tests. Significantly more students met the state proficiency goal of Basic or above. The Recovery School District (RSD) [...]
