The “Reform” of NOLA Public Schools: Headline Edition 1/3/06 to 3/22/06
See Part I.
______La. won’t run N.O. schools by itself: BESE to start taking nonprofits’ proposals. (New Orleans) Times-Picayune. 1/3/06. NewsBank. Web.
Later this month the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will begin accepting proposals from nonprofit organizations, including universities, interested in running any of the schools the Legislature in November voted to place under state control because they were performing below the state average.
Any organization that wants to run a school “must either have experience running schools or be a university,” Jarvis said.
That does not appear to bode well for a group of parents and school staff who won approval from the Orleans Parish School Board to make A.P. Tureaud, Joseph A. Craig and Albert Wicker