NOLA charter schools: favoritism with community & parents shut out « Parents Across America:
by leoniehaimson
Karran Harper Royal, long time parent advocate and one of the founding members of Parents Across America – New Orleans, reports from the front lines of school privatization, where already 75 percent of the public schools have been converted to charters, and possibly all the remaining public schools run by the Recovery School District will be charters within two years:
I’ve been in so many meetings day and night with various community groups fighting off Recovery School District Superintendent John White and charter school vultures.
Several local communities have applied for and have been denied charters for their community schools. This process began shortly after Hurricane Katrina, when several of us attempted to be part of the reforms coming to our city with the state takeover of our the majority of our
