Paul Vallas Gets An Earfull

On January 25, the Recovery School District held the 4th of 5 community meetings to hear public input regarding the programs (charters) they wanted in the buildings in their neighborhoods. Prior to this meeting, there were rumors of an impending merger of Greater Gentilly High School with the Marshall Early College High School which is a part of the UNO Charter School Network. Last year, after being told that we had to charter the school, I sought a merger for the upcoming school year. Paul Vallas agreed, then he pulled back his support and the merger did not happen. I recently found out that Vallas continued to plan the merger behind the backs of our Steering Committee. However, if that was the plan, Vallas still did not list the Marshall Early College High School as the program that would be permanently housed at the Greater Gentilly High School, in the program that was handed out at the meeting. The omission of the Marshal school on that hand out is evidence of the trickery that is happening in the "Faux" Education Reforms in New Orleans. The RSD is having these meetings presumably to get public input, but certain decisions have already been made and they are being hidden from the general public so as to quell debate or public discourse. These meetings are basically an opportunity for Charter schools to show their how wonderful and deserving their schools are. Charter schools are the only schools being given serious consideration for permanent school sites.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• RSD Recovery School District
• New Orleans Public Schools
• Charter
• Greater Gentilly
• High School
• UNO Charter School Network

[amdaliet]

We are being forced to charter our schools with promises of "better education" when all we want is a good school in our neighborhood that serves the needs of our children and instills in them a love of learning that will serve them throughout their lifetime. NOLA and the nation is moving away from this toward charter schools that have a drive for simple knowledge acquisition which is not the same. With limited accountability, these new charter schools do what they want, how they want.

[amdaliet]

Good job, KHR. We got your back.

[MrsNOLAmom]

The charter schools are not the answer, all students are NOT welcome in them, and I Thank God that there are advocates like Mrs Royal who are fighting for our Public school children. We all have to wake up and join this fight....