The Charter School Flood
Michael Tisserand : Youth
Drastic changes in the educational system are leaving New Orleans's public schools behind.

Michael Tisserand : Youth
Drastic changes in the educational system are leaving New Orleans's public schools behind.
Lisa Delpit & Charles Payne : Education Policy & Reform
The New Orleans school system, re-created in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, is beginning to look like something designed by FEMA.
Randy Fertel : Food & Nutrition
A new charter school is embracing "eco-gastronomy"--a holistic
curriculum based around food--hoping "to renew New Orleans one okra
plant and one child at a time."



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