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The unsuccessful state of public schools in the nation is epitomized by the devastation of the city of New Orleans and the New Orleans Schools. Inner city and racial achievement gaps that had been ignored before Hurricane Katrina were impossible to ignore once the districts had to be rebuilt. The biggest challenge in rebuilding the New Orleans Schools seems to reflect the overall problem with public education in the United States. While everyone seems to have an opinion, no one really knows the best way to educate our children.

Helping Parents Adapt to the New Orleans Schools

Many former students of the New Orleans Schools are still scattered in other cities around the nation. But for those who returned to the emerging new system, the past school year has been confusing and often frenzied. Low-income parents and parents with little education are rarely comfortable in academic settings. But these are the people who the New Orleans Schools need to reach out to most.

A coalition of community groups has come together to create a parents' guide to the new New Orleans Schools. The New Orleans Parents' Guide to Public Schools contains a ton of information on the school options available, how to obtain lost documents, childcare, and picking the best school for your child.

The guide lists all 69 of the new New Orleans Schools, maps, photos, how to register, and transportation for each. The goal of the guide is two-fold. First, it aims to make parents more comfortable with the New Orleans Schools. Second, it tries to make accessing the information they need as convenient as possible. A list of locations where parents of children in the New Orleans Schools can pick up the book is available at www.nolaparentsguide.org .

The book's editor, Aesha Raheed, said, "Empowering all of our families is a critical step for us to redesign public education in New Orleans. We're focused on student achievement and academic outcomes. We have an opportunity to push us in that direction. We're redefining what the expectations of public education are... and making sure our students get the best education they can."

Challenges of Low Income Populations

Educators in New Orleans Schools are intimately familiar with the challenges of educationing "at-risk" populations. Children who come from poverty, who have poorly educated parents, or absent parents, or live in dangerous environments, are more likely to suffer from attention issues, undiagnosed learning disabilites, and to struggle in school. As a result of Hurricane Katrina, many of these children in the New Orleans Schools are now dealing with post-traumatic shock issues as well.

The one unexpected benefit of the devastating hurricane is that the New Orleans Schools are being rebuilt from the ground up. Administrators, educators, and parents of the New Orleans Schools district are creating new public schools, charter schools and other initiatives designed to provide all children with adequate public education.


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Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all U.S. public and private K-12 schools. For more information please visit New Orleans School Rankings and Private School Rankings

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I have a project for Black History Month in which we create a speech and act as if we are the person and bring in props that describe the person or the props that show the person is unique and differnt, I am doing RUBY BRIDGES and I'm not sure what type of prop I should bring or how I should dress up, any ideas, I want my projetc to be the most interesting! THanks! Oh, and if you can, read my speech tell me what you think: My name?s Ruby Nell Bridges, but people call me Ruby for short. Many people have probably heard of me, not for just being brave, but for taking a turn in history. I was a part of the forty years that brought incredible change in our country, simulated in the stressing of the civil rights movement and the battle to end segregation. Forty years that changed me as well. I have a story to tell, and I am proud of it. For months when I am only 6 years old, I must confront the hostility of white parents when I become the first African American child in an all white school. It was a heart-breaking, depressing, harsh time, but I would not be the same person I am today if I had not taken that adventure. Many people would be in the same situation they were in years ago if it had not been for me, little old Ruby Nell. I was born in Mississippi in 1954, the oldest child of Abon and Lucille Bridges. That year the United States handed down its decision ordering the integration of public schools. Not that I knew anything about school at the time. What I knew and loved was growing up on the farm my grandparents sharecropped. It was a very hard life, though. My parents heard there were better opportunities in the city. So, later on, we moved to New Orleans, where my father found work as a service station attendant, and my mother took night jobs to help support our growing family. As I got a bit older, my job was to keep an eye on my younger brothers and sister, which wasn't too difficult. Our world didn't extend beyond our block, but that was all about to change. My name was becoming more and more well-known when I was about 6 years old. I was the only African-American girl who single-handedly integrated an all-white New Orleans public school in 1960, Frantz Elementary School. How did I get there, you ask? Well, I was one of the many kids who took the school board test, and passed, at only age 5. I remember each day so clearly, as if it happened just yesterday. Each day I was the one African American child who had to walk through mobs and mobs of screaming protestors to enter a classroom that was deserted of any other student but me because their furious guardians had kept them home. Where were my parents during this harsh, unforgiving time? Well, they were right there, standing side by side me, at least, my mom was. My father, Abon Bridges did not approve of me going to this all-white school. He had been one of the lucky survivors of the Korean War, and had to go through many hard times where segregation took over his life. He didn?t want to replay that unhappy time and make his little 6-year-old daughter, me, go through that as well. Luckily, my mom, Lucille, thought that this opportunity taking a step into history was needed not only to give her own daughter a better education, but to take this step forward, for all African-American children, her exact words. I guess, you could say, I went through a lot. But after many months, the crowds of protestors began to disperse and the other children returned to school, leaving me just a regular kid, enjoying life as it went on. It was obvious to the protestors and haters that I was not going to let any angry mob intimidate me. In fact, I finished my first grade year at Frantz Elementary School and went on to graduate from high school. After a couple of years, all was normal again, but, segregation did take a turn and African Americans got freedom and rights along with dignity, thanks to me. Now, I see many pictures of a small, 6 year old little girl standing alone in the face of racism. Full color.

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New Orleans public school is so bad because of the corrupt racist reublican. All the blue states schools and it's people are educated, and while the southern states, people are dumb and uneducated and we have a high rate of pregnacy and obesity. All the white schools are funded while minority school is bad, like in New Orleans. Louisiana has to slash education budgets to colored majority schools. It's all the racist white republican fault that New Orleans has very bad schooling. BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

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If You Are a Teacher or Studying to Become One, This Might Interest You?
I was just made aware of a project in New Orleans called "Teach Nola". To be elligible to become a teacher in the city of New Orleans, LA, here are the requirements: ?You must be able to pass a background investigation ?You must possess a bachelor?s degree by June 1, 2012 from a U.S. institution ?You must possess an undergraduate GPA at or above an absolute minimum of 2.5 ?You must possess an undergraduate GPA calculated on a 4.0 scale ?You must not have (or be earning) a BA or MA in Education ?You must not have (or be earning) teaching certification in any state ?You must not be enrolled in or have completed another alternative route certification program ?You must not currently work as a teacher in a New Orleans public school ( (http://teachnola.ttrack.org/Home.aspx) I was studying elementary education at the University of New Orleans but put my education on hold after I got pregnant. Thank God for the timing because now I learned that teachers are actually getting laid off to make room for the unqualified applicants. Isn't it disgusting that in order to qualifty to teach children you must NOT be qualified? I have 6 aunts who are teachers in the state and 4 of which lost their pension and 2 are now laid off. I also have a brother in law with only an associates in marketing and he got a job teaching a 6th grade class. If you actually lived in the state and see what's going on you'd see that the city is not looking for teachers. They are looking for babysitters. you can see for yourself on the page. type it in yourself www.teachnola.com. I didn't make these requirements up. I copy/pasted it. The site DOES NOT say that you get certified before you can begin teaching. The site says you get certified AFTER ONE YEAR IF YOU SHOW YOU'RE AT LEAST AS CAPABLE AS A REGULAR TEACHER. So you're still teaching without being certified. I know how to read and I know the city that I live in. I've actually seen the class that goes on with these so called "teachers". this is another excerpt straight from the source itself. Don't believe me? Check for yourself. (URL is in the 2nd edit). During your first year in the classroom, you must continue coursework toward certification through TNTP Academy, a national network of teacher preparation programs dedicated to training excellent teachers for disadvantaged students. First launched as the Louisiana Practitioner Teacher Program by TNTP in 2001, TNTP Academy now prepares new teachers for licensure in 7 states and the District of Columbia. It is among the first teacher preparation programs in the country to require all teachers to demonstrate their effectiveness in the classroom in order to be recommended for state certification. You will also be observed regularly and receive personalized support to help you develop the skills you need to raise student achievement. At the end of your first year, if you meet all program requirements and demonstrate that you are effective as a new teacher, you I guess my edit was too long. But the 2nd post is false. You teach for the first year and get evaluated at the end of the year to eligible for state certification. They require that you are NOT certified prior to teaching. Check for yourself if you think I'm typing out of the head. The only training you're required to do for this program is to attend a 5 week course. You're required to take the Praxis (if you have 22 or higher ACT score you'd be exempt). After the 5 weeks you're good to go and then you take another course twice a week WHILE YOU ARE TEACHING. Not BEFORE YOU'RE ELIGIBLE. The state is gambling a year of a childs education while "evaluating" whether or not the teacher is qualified to teach. This is the whole 2nd paragraph in the edit right above me (once again. straight from the website) You will also be observed regularly and receive personalized support to help you develop the skills you need to raise student achievement. At the end of your first year, if you meet all program requirements and demonstrate that you are effective as a new teacher, you will be eligible for state certification.

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