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Eventually, the Recovery School District (RSD) took over 102 out of 126 schools from the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) in late-November 2005. Of the remaining 24 schools, seven were uninhabitable, 12 became charters, and five remained directly managed by OPSB. [6] In 2018, the RSD schools in New Orleans returned to the supervision of the OPSB.
The Recovery School District had been created in 2003 to allow the state to take over failing schools, those that fell into a certain "worst-performing" metric. Five public schools in New Orleans had been transferred to RSD control prior to Katrina. [9]
The Recovery School District (RSD) was established in 2003 by the Louisiana Legislature as a means for the state to take over low-performing public schools. Since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the RSD has chartered out all of its schools, and approximately 92% of students in New Orleans attend charter schools .
Sophie B. Wright statue, New Orleans. Sophie B. Wright Charter School is a charter high school and middle school in New Orleans, Louisiana. [2] [3] It is a part of the Recovery School District and was named after Sophie B. Wright. [4]
Reed opened in 1988 and was directly operated by the Orleans Parish School Board and then the Recovery School District. [3] It was named after Sarah Towles Reed and the campus was built to house up to 1,170 students. [4] [5]
On a City of New Orleans website concerning the FEMA Recovery Fund [2] in 2013, announcing the groundbreaking for the new Sanchez Center in the Lower Ninth Ward, Mayor Landrieu also addressed how he worked with the Louisiana Recovery School District to ensure the rebuilding of the $37.5 million Alfred Lawless High School which was destroyed by ...
The school originally opened as George Washington Carver Senior High School in 1961. [3] It was a public high school operated by New Orleans Public Schools, then Recovery School District starting in 2005. [4] Prior to Hurricane Katrina the school had about 1,300 students.
The school's building was built in 1937 and was previously the L. E. Rabouin Memorial Trades School, later named the L. E. Rabouin Vocational High School and then L. E. Rabouin Career Magnet School. The Louisiana Recovery School District took over managing the building and former school after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.