The Coup D¿etat of the New Orleans Public Schools av Raynard Sanders

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<P><EM>The Coup D¿¿t of the New Orleans Public Schools </EM>explores and criticizes the contemporary educational reforms of the New Orleans public school system. The New Orleans education reforms implemented after Hurricane Katrina, using the corporate model approach, have been an academic failure with charter operators making millions of dollars while reestablishing a segregated school system based on race and class¿all in the name of school reform. Despite the claims of unprecedented academic success the educational reforms have been a dismal failure academically and operationally, and have resurrected equity and access issues. Equally as disturbing the reforms firmly have re-established a tiered public school system that segregates students by race and class.<I> The Coup D¿¿t of the New Orleans Public Schools</I> puts the corporate education reform movement in its proper context, which is to create a new twenty-first century model for turning around urban public school districts in