New Orleans schools' recovery depends on increased federal involvement, report says New Orleans Metro Education News - - NOLA.com:
"If the federal government doesn't do more to assist with the recovery of New Orleans schools, gains made over the past four years will prove unsustainable, according to a new report by the Southern Education Foundation.
Jennifer Zdon/The Times-PicayuneLangston Hughes Academy, a charter elementary school, opened in a new building in August, but the majority of New Orleans public school students remain in outdated buildings.The foundation says that unless the federal government increases its commitment to moving forward, 'the progress made to date could become a 'flash in the pan,' to the detriment of all.' Officials must give particular attention, it said, to rebuilding the city's destroyed school buildings and to supporting instruction within their walls.
Since Katrina, only 4 percent of federal disaster relief aid provided to the Gulf Coast has gone to education, according to the not-for-profit advocacy group and think tank, which is based in Atlanta."
"If the federal government doesn't do more to assist with the recovery of New Orleans schools, gains made over the past four years will prove unsustainable, according to a new report by the Southern Education Foundation.
Jennifer Zdon/The Times-PicayuneLangston Hughes Academy, a charter elementary school, opened in a new building in August, but the majority of New Orleans public school students remain in outdated buildings.The foundation says that unless the federal government increases its commitment to moving forward, 'the progress made to date could become a 'flash in the pan,' to the detriment of all.' Officials must give particular attention, it said, to rebuilding the city's destroyed school buildings and to supporting instruction within their walls.
Since Katrina, only 4 percent of federal disaster relief aid provided to the Gulf Coast has gone to education, according to the not-for-profit advocacy group and think tank, which is based in Atlanta."