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[quote=Anonymous]Raising the educational performance bar for ALL students in Alexandria CAN be done as proven recently in Louisiana in article below. Stay vigilant and vocal Alexandria City residents! Don't settle.

Charter schools’ progressive promise for the future of US education
https://nypost.com/2018/07/04/charter-schools-progressive-promise-for-the-future-of-us-education/
By Emily Langhorne July 4, 2018

"...[b]nearly 13 years ago, one of the effects of the Hurricane Katrina cataclysm was to largely wipe out the city’s abysmal public schools. New Orleans’ educational system was essentially rebuilt from the ground up as a laboratory for charter schools — not a school district with a few charters sprinkled among traditional institutions, but an almost wholly charter-filled system largely run by the state of Louisiana.[/b]

The Recovery School District experiment proved successful; New Orleans public schools have improved faster than those of any other city in the nation over the past decade. But 80 percent of the schools were run by the state’s Recovery School District. An indication of the RSD’s success — and of New Orleans’ resurgence as a thriving metropolitan center — was the state’s decision to hand over responsibility for the school district to a locally elected school board on July 1....nearly 13 years ago, one of the effects of the Hurricane Katrina cataclysm was to largely wipe out the city’s abysmal public schools. New Orleans’ educational system was essentially rebuilt from the ground up as a laboratory for charter schools — not a school district with a few charters sprinkled among traditional institutions, but an almost wholly charter-filled system largely run by the state of Louisiana.

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