If you happen to be in New Orleans this Saturday September 22, you won’t want to miss this fascinating panel discussion about “The Education Experiment: Petri Dish Reform in New Orleans and Louisiana.”
And even if you can’t get there for the panel discussion, open the link and see what they are talking about.
New Orleans is the first American city to wipe out public education and replace it with a charter system (80% of the students are in charters). Louisiana has passed legislation that will transfer $2 billion in public fund away from public schools to voucher schools.
Pay attention.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Diane,
Please read this. It immediately made me think of the conservative study that just came out about how “good” the poor really have it.
http://www.ksat.com/news/What-it-s-like-to-live-in-poverty/-/478452/16681666/-/32bcbz/-/index.html
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Diane
The next time you see James Carville you may want to bring him up to speed on what is happening to schools in New Orleans. His recent book with Stan Greenberg, “Its the Middle Class-Stupid” is a very good history of the destruction of the middle class in America. Carville laments the cuts in funding to education at the K-12 and HE levels. He believes more money should be spent on public schools, and that they need to improve. However, he is under the mistaken notion that the charter schools in New Orleans may be the solution.
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