New Orleans schools strive to recover
Apr 30, 2008 12:38 PM
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.
Click here to read The New York Times article.















