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Alternative school in New Orleans struggles to succeed

June 29, 2009
Schwarz Alternative School plagued by violence, deteriorating facility

From The New Orleans Times-Picayune: In creating Schwarz Alternative School, the Recovery School District in New Orleans faced one of the toughest jobs in American schooling: to teach and minister to the neediest students in one of the nation's poorest and most violent cities. School and district documents and interviews with more than two dozen students, parents, teachers, officials and experts reveal a dismal portrait of a beleaguered staff struggling daily to meet students' severe needs.

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