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          • A Review and Critique of Rebuilding and Transforming
          • The State of Public Education in New Orleans: Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
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2010

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June 14 Update

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June 1 Update

May 24 Update

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April 26 Update

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2009

December 14 Update

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November 15 Update

November 2 Update

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October 6 Update

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August Update

July 20 Update

July 6 Update

June 26 Update

June 19 Update

June 12 Update

June 5 Update

May 29 Update

May 22 Update

May 15 Update

May 8 Update

May 1 Update

April 27 Update

If you would like more information on any of this information, please contact Nash Molpus at nmolpus@tulane.edu

Latest News

  • Laying the Foundation Pre-AP Training on October 16th

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  • New Orleans Schools, Cowen Institute, Make Headlines on Katrina’s Fifth Anniversary

    Read the articles here.

  • Join us for a live chat on NOLA schools five years after Katrina this Friday.

    The chat, being put on by Education Week, will feature CI researcher Michael Schwam-Baird and Aesha Rasheed of the New Orleans Parents’ Organizing Network answering your questions.

  • Cowen Institute/CPS Course Development Grant

    We are announcing a grant competition to support the development of service-learning courses designed to serve students at the 300 course level and above.  The purpose is to promote the institutionalization of public service offerings that deal with innovative policies and programs in the New Orleans public schools.  Click here for more details.

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Press

  • Education Week has extensive coverage on New Orleans schools five years post-Katrina.

    Read it all here.

  • Vallas Announces Teacher-Training Partnership with Dillard

    Read about it here.

  • New Schools for New Orleans to Get $28 Million Federal Grant

    Grant will be used to turn around more failing schools here and in Tennessee.  Click here to read more about it.

  • New L. B. Landry School Opens on Westbank

    The Recovery District School cost $54 million and is more than 200,000 square feet.  Click here to read more.

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