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Expansion will create high school in New Orleans Lower 9th Ward

June 24, 2008
It will be the first public high school in the neighborhood since Hurricane Katrina

The first public school to return to the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina will open a high school in the recovering community. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology, which serves students in grades preK to 8, will start a freshman class in 2008-09. The school will add a grade each year and serve 40 students in each grade. The expansion establishes the first public high school in the Lower 9th Ward since the 2005 storm season.

To read The New Orleans Times-Picayune article, click here.

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