New Catholic school facility in New Orleans replaces campus lost in Hurricane Katrina

From The New Orleans Times-Picayune: Officials at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans have dedicated a $36 million, 100,000-square-foot middle school and high school that replaces the buildings that were ruined in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. The Catholic school's 31 classrooms are equipped with interactive white boards, television monitors and touch-screen computers. The modernistic purple- and blond-brick buildings, which form an open square around a fountain, also contain a weight room, an art room with a kiln, a bookstore, a student union and a band area with soundproofed practice rooms. While waiting for the new facility, many of the schools 320 students were housed in modular classrooms.