Education
OVERVIEW
For many years, public schools in New Orleans failed to provide students with the education they needed to grow into healthy, productive citizens. This failure has had devastating effects on individuals and entire communities, with direct implications for crime, the economy, and our very civic identity.
However, there has been a massive reordering of public education in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. The disaster forced all schools in the city to close for some time. As they began reopening, the city emerged as a proving ground for education reform on a scale never before seen in our nation’s history.
In this environment of unprecedented change, we are working to ensure that reforms do indeed create the public education system that students, their families, and our communities have always deserved — a system that prepares all students to become active citizens and attain good jobs.
We support ongoing public education reform as well as programs that improve the ability of parents and other stakeholders to shape these reforms. By building trust and a shared sense of purpose between school officials, parents, and the community at large, we can sustain reforms and more effectively create a high-functioning public school system.
We believe that every student in our community deserves a quality education at a safe school and the life opportunities such an education brings.
OUR WORK
We support innovation in this arena through:
IMPACT
Our program to create a resilient, sustainable and equitable region where people may achieve their full potential and where our unique culture may flourish. Read More >>
SNAPSHOTS
Improving Afterschool Programs: Gina Warner Executive Director, Greater New Orleans Afterschool Partnership Having been a teacher, a lawyer, a lobbyist, and now a mother, Gina Warner knows that what happens outside the classroom is just as important as what happens inside the classroom. She and her staff support programs for youth, conduct research
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offer education and training to afterschool providers, and work with governmental agencies in order to give New Orleans youth quality programs.
“We all know that children thrive when they have a safe place to learn and play after school,” says Warner. “We’re bringing national standards in youth development to our community to better serve all our children.”
Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans
Joann is benefiting from the services of the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans, an organization using innovative approaches to adult learning.
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