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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Times slings the manure on New Orleans charters

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Times slings the manure on New Orleans charters:

Times slings the manure on New Orleans charters

Echoing Duncan's comments on Katrina

Not since Arne Duncan claimed that Hurricane Katrina was "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans" have I heard more b.s. about charter schools in the Big Easy. The latest to sling the manure is the N.Y. Times editorial board.

An October 15th editorial, Lessons From New Orleans, takes Duncan's crude comment and runs with it, hailing, "the structural changes [that] occurred because the hurricane essentially destroyed the old system, allowing the city to