You may have read that Louisiana’s famous, controversial, ballyhooed Recovery School District has been dissolved. Eleven years after Hurricane Katrina, the district comprised of charter schools is being returned to the districts from which they were drawn. Most are in New Orleans and will be returned to the Orleans Parish School Board.
Can it be true? Are the charter champions really giving up their struggle? John White knows. He is the State Commissioner who regularly boasts about the miracle of the RSD. But he is not telling.
Michael Klonsky has his doubts. So does Karran Harper Royal.
Mercedes Schneider has written two versions.
Here is a brief overview.
Here is her close analysis of the law.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
What a waste of time and money, and what an insult to the public school teachers that lost their careers.
Hey, it’s all about that vaunted free market philosophy, no not philosophy but metaphysics.
What gets returned – charter schools? Are charters going to close and be replaced by public schools? I haven’t read the article yet; will do, but those are the questions that readily come to mind. New Jersey is poised to return control from the State to Newark, and the State is in a frenzy to open more charters. When it returns local control, what is left?
Read it again, carefully. “Schools will be returned to districts…..and Supts. must come up with a plan…”.
Seems like this means back to square one, public schools will be public, not charter. Hope they are reconstituted to be more effective for all those inner city students than before the levees burst. And that they don’t buy any Neal Bush text books.
So much for Green Dot and all the other frauds who took the money and ran.
Ellen,
I think the charter schools in NOLA will remain charter schools, not public schools. The only way they lose their autonomy is if they want to.