Here's How Hurricane Katrina Led to the Meteoric Rise of Charter Schools in New Orleans

Here's how Hurricane Katrina led to the meteoric rise of charter schools in New Orleans

Before Katrina, all students in New Orleans attended public schools. When they returned, everything had changed.

‘Never seen before’: How Katrina set off an education revolution

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, taking stock of the miracle in New Orleans schools.

The 74 Explains: How Katrina Transformed New Orleans Schools

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina wiped out 85% of the schools in New Orleans, touching off the largest school improvement effort in U.S. history

More change ahead for New Orleans public schools 20 years after Katrina

In this file photo, kindergartners smile on their first day of school at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology in the Lower 9th Ward Aug. 20, 2007, in New Orleans. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Hurricane Katrina prompted the wholesale move of New Orleans’ public schools to an all-charter system, though seeds for the dramatic overhaul were sown at least two years before the 2005 catastrophe.  Before the storm, 6…

Katrina reshaped landscape, complexion, unity of New Orleans churches, leaders say • Biblical Recorder

NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The church doors would remain open, David Crosby decided after the levees failed New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina. Someone from the Midwest sent a huge generator to First Baptist Church of New Orleans, Crosby’s pastorate at the time, enabling the church to reopen as soon as the law allowed. Near constant [...]Read More...