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Conflict resolution programs to end school violence, better quality lunches and oil-free schools by 2015 were a few recommendations a group of 150 members of "Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools," made...
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Although many NY2NO organizers went on their first trips down to New Orleans with their schools, the students realized that they wanted to create a coalition separate and free from the usual administrative power of adults and that brought together youth from across New York City. Following this demand NY2NO was formed as a student organization under which trips to New Orleans could be organized. Now it has become a network of New York City High School students interested in organizing and mobilizing around the parallel struggles of New Orleans and their own communities.
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Pick up an autographed copy of Brothers of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans at the Brother Martin CajunFest today, from about 1pm until about 5pm. All proceeds (including author's royalties) go to Brother Martin High School
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It's been more than four years since tens of thousands of students from Louisiana and other parts of the Gulf Coast landed in some of Texas' public schools after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their homes, their cities, and their schools. Most of those kids wound up in big city districts like Houston and Dallas, and many have remained there since.
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A five-day discovery tour of culinary New Orleans. Three hands-on cooking classes and insider’s visits to restaurants, cafés, bars, food markets, and historic music and arts neighborhoods makes this total immersion in Who Dat culture.
Roll up your sleeves and cook with New Orleans chefs using recipes, ingredients and techniques passed down over the generations. Meet restaurateurs up close and personal, visit offbeat spots on and off the tourist maps, and discover the New Orleans eateries the locals love.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan called Hurricane Katrina "the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans" because it forced the community to take steps to improve low-performing public schools, according to excerpts from a television interview made public Friday.
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Walk into a New Orleans charter or public school, and you're likely to meet teachers from all over the country working in the classrooms. It's not like that in many school districts in the nation, where teachers often work not far from where they went to school themselves.
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(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Students show their excitement at meeting President Barack Obama during his visit to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, La., Oct. 15, 2009.
President Barack Obama has a discussion with students during a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans, La., Oct. 15, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Curriculum pushes civic engagement Tulane University has rolled out a new program focused on social entrepreneurship, or the notion that creative types can put their entrepreneurial ideas to work addressing seemingly intractable social ills.
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Hurricane Katrina destroyed Tanya Jones family's home. She relocated to Dallas with no possessions except a few items of clothing.
Just four years later, the New Orleans native has risen through the ranks to become a principal again – in the Irving school district.
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