Dismantling a Community, a new publication from the Center, chronicles the selling-off of New Orleans Schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Rather than build the first-class public education system that New Orleans kids have deserved for decades, Federal Government officials and right-wing advocates used this tragedy as fertile ground for social experimentation on a grand scale.
Thousands of seasoned teachers have been let go and teacher's unions have been decimated while some $40 million has been spent to turn the New Orleans education system into a complex web of individually operated schools where parents have to vie for a quality education for their children.
Dismantling a Community tells the consequences of the ongoing assault that privatization advocates have unleashed on the fragile neighborhoods of New Orleans.
Click here to download the report [3]
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[1] http://katrinareader.cwsworkshop.org/center-community-change
[2] http://www.communitychange.org/issues/education/publications/
[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20070822013338/http://communitychange.org/issues/education/publications/downloads/DismantlingFULL.pdf
[4] http://katrinareader.cwsworkshop.org/sites/katrinareader.org/files/DismantlingFULL.pdf
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