Our Gated Schools: New Orleans is the only city in the nation where neighborhood children do not have a right to attend any of their open-enrollment neighborhood schools
Retired New Orleans principal Raynard Sanders hosts a weekly radio show about New Orleans public education.Raynard Sanders, Ed.D. is an educational consultant, researcher and radio host, his program The New Orleans Imperative is the only weekly radio show in New Orleans that focuses on public education, for more info please visit www.theneworleansimperative.org. and www.researchonreforms.org.
When one looks at the history of public education in New Orleans, which begins in 1841, as it relates to equity, it is clear that it operated like most southern school districts in typically segregated societies. For most of the history of public education in New Orleans, it was the norm for students of color to attend schools a distance from their homes in that they