In what is becoming an annual spectacle in New Orleans, the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) is pitching itself to charter operators in the state-run Recovery School District, which took over most of the city’s schools after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Recovery School District (RSD) oversees schools throughout the state, although the vast majority of its schools are in New Orleans. It was formed by the Louisiana state legislature in 2003 to take over public schools deemed to be “failing” in order to convert them into privately run charter schools. The state later seized on the opportunity created by Hurricane Katrina, which flooded over 80 percent of New Orleans and devastated the city’s public school infrastructure, to transfer almost every school in the city to RSD, leaving OPSB a rump district with only a handful of schools. This May, RSD closed its last remaining traditional public school, becoming the first all-charter school district in the United States.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0000
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