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Schools previously operating under the Recovery School District umbrella within Orleans Parish after Katrina were, as of the fall of 2014, publicly funded and privately operated charter schools. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 6 ] The RSD returned all its schools to the OPSB in 2018.
[2] [3] In the fall of 2010, Crescent City Schools received a Type 5 charter from the state of Louisiana to transform a failing school in New Orleans. In February 2011, Crescent City Schools was assigned to Harriet Tubman, a K-8 school in Orleans Parish, and assumed operations there on July 1, 2011. [ 4 ]
The attendance boundary was preserved because parents and employees voted to make Lusher a charter school just before the hurricane's arrival. All of the other New Orleans schools lost their attendance boundaries after Katrina hit New Orleans. In the post-Katrina period the attendance area, previously economically mixed, became wealthier. [17]
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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. After Katrina, the original building was demolished. [5]
It operates eight charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, several schools in the Algiers area were transferred from the New Orleans Public Schools to the ACSA. The Association partners with the COOL Cooperative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to provide after school, weekend, and summer programs. The programs provide academic support ...
In 2015, the school signed a contract with New Orleans Public Schools, making the school the first to return to the district's authority since Katrina. [8] On December 10, 2024, the Orleans Parish School Board voted to close Dr. King Charter High School at the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year, citing low enrollment and poor academic ...
In 2005, as Hurricane Katrina was about to hit, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) designated Easton as a place where people could receive transportation to the Louisiana Superdome, a shelter of last resort. [3] After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the school was closed for one year. In 2006, the school re-opened as a charter ...