New Orleans schools strive to recover

All around New Orleans, there is growing hope that the school system is getting better. Dozens of new charter schools, a flood of idealistic young teachers from elsewhere around the country and a reform-minded superintendent from Chicago are all arrayed to rescue one of America’s most needy student bodies, which ranked at the bottom of a bottom-dwelling state even before the devastation that was left in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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