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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.
Paul Gust Vallas Sr. (VAL-iss; [1] born June 10, 1953) is an American politician and former education superintendent.He served as the superintendent of the Bridgeport Public Schools in Connecticut and the Recovery School District of Louisiana, the CEO of both the School District of Philadelphia and the Chicago Public Schools, and a budget director for the city of Chicago.
Leslie Rosenthal Jacobs (born 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an education reform advocate, business executive, and philanthropist.Born in New Orleans and a graduate of Cornell University, she built her family's small, independent insurance agency into one of the largest in the South, before merging the Rosenthal Agency with Hibernia National Bank (now Capital One).
Jacobs was a key architect of Louisiana's Recovery School District and is a former Orleans Parish School Board member. The organization is chiefly focused on sustaining and enhancing the major transformation and reorganization of the previously failing public school system in New Orleans .
Newcomer Asa H. Nadeau also will join the board. Kathleen M. Cole will join the Nauset Regional School Committee and Katherine J. Towry-McNamara was elected to the Orleans Elementary School Committee.
Both were confirmed by legislators. Alario is a long-term Democrat who switched parties prior to the 2011 elections. [76] In January 2012, Jindal elevated John C. White, the short-term superintendent at the Recovery School District in New Orleans, to the position of state superintendent of education. [77]
Gayle Cosby: Cosby was previously elected to the school board in 2011 and served until 2016. Cosby began her career as a teacher in an IPS elementary school and is the program chair and professor ...
Jul. 9—The Cheney school board election for district No. 4 features three political newcomers in a race without an incumbent. Board member Stacy Nicol's decision not to run again, after serving ...