A New Orleans charter school regains its footing

In New Orleans, Lafayette Academy's experience with the profit-making company it hired to manage instruction offers a cautionary tale of how well-meaning trustees can easily stumble, and of how privatizing management is often far from a panacea. It also offers lessons in how a determined organization of amateurs can turn things around. Lafayette’s trustees eventually booted out the national company and installed a veteran principal with local roots. This year Lafayette is by all appearances the solid charter school it was meant to be.

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