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Could Leslie Jacobs be the cure for New Orleans Failing Schools?



The City of New Orleans is still in a state of recovery after Hurricane Katrina, and no where is that more evident then in The New Orleans Public School System. Plagued for years by a lack of leadership and corruption, as a result the Children of New Orleans have suffered academically. With the up coming mayor's race many of us within the academic community have searched out the announced candidates for one person that will lead in the efforts to provide better education for the children of New Orleans.

There are two women who have entered the race for mayor which has sparked an cacophony of questions in regards to the possibility of electing the first woman as mayor. I say why not give a woman a chance to fix the many issues that have blockade any chance of reforming New Orleans Public School System.

As a life long resident of New Orleans I have had my hopes of progressive, innovative leadership crushed so many times in pass 25 years that I almost lost the audacity of hope. Then recently the whispers turned into rumors, which eventually turned into a commercial announcing Leslie Jacobs for Mayor of New Orleans. Thank God!

I am in no way connected to her campaign, nor have I ever had the opportunity to meet Ms. Jacobs. My excitement over her public announcement is due to the possibility of a new direction for The City of New Orleans.

I can remember standing on the corner of St. Claude and Poland wearing a T-shirt that said "Keep the Drive Alive", I was about 10 years old at the time. It was the famous campaign slogan for the first African American Mayor of New Orleans Earnest "Dutch" Morial. This was a period of great pride and accomplishment, but it was short lived due to the collapse of Big Oil in Louisiana, and the horrific bankruptcy of the 1984 World's Fair.

Then came Sidney Barthelemy, and Marc Morial (son of Earnest Morial), in which the city only experienced marginal growth within a 16 year period. I jumped on the Ray Nagin bandwagon only because it was filled with people who were tired of traditional politicians steering the city in reverse. Candidate Nagin brought the promise of a "New" New Orleans in which corporate America would be welcome to do business with our city. As jobs continued to leave New Orleans for suburban cities, or leave the state all together, it became apparent that New Orleans would continue to suffer from non Katrina related illnesses.

I applaud Ms. Jacobs ambition to become mayor of New Orleans (a predominantly African American City) because of her work in the trenches with the Recovery School District in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The crime problem in New Orleans is directly connected with the poor educational system that was in place prior to the storm. In 1991 when the state pass the mandatory exit exam for all Louisiana High Schools many of the kids who could not pass the exit exam simply dropped out of school, and consequently enrolled into the drug industry.

I use to subscribe to the thought process that in order to have a better New Orleans we need to first fight crime, but now I know crime is only a symptom of a greater illness. Education has to be first if we are going to expect economic development.

We need a Mayor who will take control of the New Orleans Public School Board and make it an appointed position with accountability, only then will we enjoy a better New Orleans.





Tyronne Jacques would like to invite you to visit www.theobamaknights.com website as we push for better school for inner city children. You can also reach Tyronne Jacques via email tj@theobamaknights.com

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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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