Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans: Still Too White.
Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans is a French immersion charter school located in New Orleans. According to Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) October 2018 enrollment data (see here and here), Lycée Français’s enrollment included 824 students in grades K-8.
Lycée Français has been criticized in the past for both its predominately white student body and higher socioeconomic draw. From 2012:
Allegations that Lycée Français de la Nouvelle Orléans is structured to favor well-off students and that it does not appropriately serve the city’s African-American population resurfaced on Tuesday afternoon when a series of complaints about the new French-immersion charter school were aired before the state education board in Baton Rouge.Among the complaints were that the school has failed to follow through on an outreach program to a Central City daycare promised in its charter, that it is using state money to subsidize its private preschool, that students in the school’s new second grade are not being given adequate remedial instruction in French and that state education officials are intentionally ignoring those issues. No action was taken on the complaints, but the board asked its staff to investigate the claims and report its findings next month at a meeting in New Orleans. …[Louisiana state superintendent John] White said that the state has already expressed its own concerns about the diversity of the school, and that Lycee Francais is making improvement. After an extensive outreach using radio ads and flyers to predominantly black neighborhoods last year during admissions, White said Lycee Francais now has a minority population of about 30 percent. (By comparison, Lycee had about 15 percent nonwhite students last year, Lusher had 48 percent, Audubon Charter had 62 percent and International School had 71 percent; the nonwhite population of New Orleans is about 67 percent.)
Six years later (October 2018), of the 824 students enrolled at Lycée Français, 477 (58%) were white; 135 (16%) were black, and 130 (16%) were Hispanic.
According to October 2018 enrollment data, New Orleans schools in general served a student body that was 7% white (3,316 / 46,178) 82% black (37,977 / 46,178), 7% Hispanic (3,338 / 46,178).
As of October 2018, only 42% of Lycée Français’s student body is economically CONTINUE READING: Lycée Français de la Nouvelle-Orléans: Still Too White. | deutsch29