New Orleans Transforms Public Education With All-Charter Model

New Orleans Transforms Public Education With All-Charter Model

In the 1990s, New Orleans schools provided little respite from the lockdowns, the arrests, the drug use, and the violence seen and heard at home, Oscar Brown recalls. Brown grew up in what was then among the poorest, most densely populated public housing projects in the nation. Most of its teenagers attended one crowded high school: George Washington Carver. “The teachers cared about us and did the best they could,” Brown told The Epoch Times. “…