WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Diverse Charter Schools Coalition congratulates member
schools Bricolage Academy of New Orleans, Morris Jeff Community School, and the International School of Louisiana on outperforming both the statewide and district averages in the 2017 Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) assessments.
Select a Charter School Abramson Sci Academy Akili Academy of New Orleans Algiers Technology Academy Alice M. Harte Charter School Andrew H. Wilson Charter School ARISE Academy Arthur Ashe Charter School Audubon Charter School Benjamin E. Mays Preparatory School (CLOSED) Benjamin Franklin High
School Bricolage Academy of New Orleans Cohen College Prep Crescent Leadership Academy Crocker College Prep Cypress Academy Dr. King Charter School Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy of Global Studies Edgar P. Harney Spirit of Excellence Academy Edna Karr High School Edward Hynes Charter School Einstein Charter School Einstein Charter School Extension ENCORE Academy Esperanza Charter School Fannie C. Williams Charter School Foundation Preparatory Charter School Gentilly Terrace Charter School George Washington Carver Collegiate Academy George Washington Carver Preparatory Academy (CLOSED 2016) Harriet Tubman Charter School Homer A. Plessy Community School International High School of New Orleans International School of Louisiana James M. Singleton Charter School John Dibert Community School John McDonogh High School (CLOSED) Joseph A. Craig Charter School Joseph S. Clark Preparatory High School KIPP Believe College Prep KIPP Central City Academy (5 - 8) KIPP Central City Primary KIPP McDonogh 15 School for the Creative Arts KIPP New Orleans Leadership Academy KIPP Renaissance High School Lafayette Academy Charter School Lagniappe Academies (CLOSED) Lake Area New Tech Early College High School Lake Forest Elementary Charter School Landry — Walker College and Career Preparatory High School Langston Hughes Academy Lusher Charter School Lycée Français de la Nouvelle - Orléans Martin Behrman Charter School Academy of Creative Arts and Sciences Mary Dora Coghill Accelerated Charter School McDonogh No. 32 Literacy Charter School McDonogh No. 42 Elementary Charter School Medard H. Nelson Charter School Mildred Osborne Charter School Milestone Academy Miller - McCoy Academy for Mathematics and Business (CLOSED) Morris Jeff Community School New Orleans Charter Science & Mathematics High School New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy Paul Habans Charter School Phillis Wheatley Community School Pierre A. Capdau Charter School ReNEW Accelerated High School (CLOSED) ReNEW Accelerated High School West Bank ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary (Reed / Little Woods) ReNEW McDonogh City Park Academy ReNEW Schaumburg Elementary ReNEW SciTech Academy Robert Russa Moton Charter School Samuel J. Green Charter School Sophie B. Wright Charter School Success Preparatory Academy Sylvanie Williams College Prep Elementary The NET Charter High School Warren Easton Charter High School William J. Fischer Accelerated Academy
Not exact matches
Such
bricolage arrangements are simple guesswork and no substitute for a rational student - based funding policy that treats the same student similarly regardless of the local public
school their parent chooses for them.
Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and
school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pag
school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter
schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter
School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pag
School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five -
school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pag
school Denver
School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pag
School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter
School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pag
School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and
Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).
Josh Densen, the founder of
Bricolage Academy in New Orleans, says he has a lot of respect for charter
schools targeted at low - income students with the explicit goal of closing the achievement gap.
And this
school year, two other new charter
schools with similarly diverse demographics opened: Homer A. Plessy in the 9th Ward and
Bricolage Academy Uptown.
4POINT0
SCHOOLS Audubon Charter School Bayou District Foundation Belle Chasse Academy Breakthrough N O (Fiscal Agent Isidore Newman) Bricolage Academy Choice Foundation (2 schools) Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A. Plessy City Year College Beyond College Track Collegiate Academies (3 schools) Communities in Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
SCHOOLS Audubon Charter School Bayou District Foundation Belle Chasse Academy Breakthrough N O (Fiscal Agent Isidore Newman) Bricolage Academy Choice Foundation (2 schools) Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A. Plessy City Year College Beyond College Track Collegiate Academies (3 schools) Communities in Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
SCHOOLS Audubon Charter
School Bayou District Foundation Belle Chasse Academy Breakthrough N O (Fiscal Agent Isidore Newman)
Bricolage Academy Choice Foundation (2
schools) Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A. Plessy City Year College Beyond College Track Collegiate Academies (3 schools) Communities in Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
schools) Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A. Plessy City Year College Beyond College Track Collegiate Academies (3 schools) Communities in Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
schools) Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A. Plessy City Year College Beyond College Track Collegiate Academies (3
schools) Communities in Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
schools) Communities in Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
schools) Communities in
Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
Schools of New Orleans Crescent City Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
Schools of New Orleans Crescent City
Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
Schools (3 schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
Schools (3
schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
schools) Cypress Charter School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4 schools) E
schools) Cypress Charter
School Association (DBA Cypress Academy) Edgar P. Harney / Spirit of Excellence Academy Education Pioneers Einstein Group, Inc. (4
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Potter points to the Blackstone Valley Prep
schools in Rhode Island as an example of a program that has managed to create integrated
schools while also embracing more structure than progressive
schools like
Bricolage, including uniforms, a longer
school day and a strict discipline code.
She acknowledges that the coalition is dominated by
schools like
Bricolage,
schools that embrace progressive teaching approaches that tend to rely much more on projects and much less on testing than traditional
schools.
Bricolage is part of a new wave of charter
schools looking to bake economic and racial diversity into their very DNA.
Other than Lusher, Audubon, Hynes and the newest
Bricolage Academy, I honestly could not see my daughter attending a public
school.
EP Fellows in the New Orleans area work on strategic projects that make a difference, including: growth plans for expanding charter management organizations ARISE
Schools and KIPP New Orleans, financial analysis of teacher retirement plans for Algiers Charter
School Association, family engagement strategies for
Bricolage Academy, and hands - on operations work for ReNEW
Schools and Crescent City
Schools.
New Orleans Diverse Charter
Schools Outperform District on Statewide Assessment The Coalition Congratulates
Bricolage Academy of New Orleans, Morris Jeff Community
School, and the International
School of Louisiana on their LEAP Performance
Bricolage Academy of New Orleans Choice Foundation Citizens Committee for Education Collegiate Academies of New Orleans Community Leaders Advocating for Student Success Council for Quality Education Crescent City
Schools Dryades YMCA Educators for Quality Alternatives Einstein Group, Inc..
Audry Pallas — Livingston Collegiate Chris Reed — Edna Karr HS Christy Swauncy — KIPP Central City Academy Corisma Barnes — Edna Karr HS Elaine Savoy — Mildred Osborne Jestin Moorehead — Morris Jeff Leah Lykins — Abramson Sci Academy Mendrek Solite — Nelson Charter
School Sari Levy —
Bricolage Academy Steffany Alecon — KIPP East Community Whitney Radosti — ReNEW Cultural Arts Alexis Dickie — Cohen College Prep HS Alicia Laura — KIPP Renaissance Alyssa Quaranta — Sci High Hannah Rich — Sci High Kristen Pate — Morris Jeff Kyle Smith — Success Prep Lance Eden — Einstein Charter MS Megan Pavageau — Einstein Charter MS Natalie Williams — Phillis Wheatley Nora McConnell - Johnson — Samuel J. Green Nora Wentworth — Akili Academy
The creative
schools that do exist — such as Audubon Montessori, Lusher Charter and
Bricolage — are all over-subscribed.
Bricolage Academy will become the next new charter
school to open from the ground up in New Orleans next fall, after the full Orleans Parish School Board voted unanimously in favor of the project Tuesday ev
school to open from the ground up in New Orleans next fall, after the full Orleans Parish
School Board voted unanimously in favor of the project Tuesday ev
School Board voted unanimously in favor of the project Tuesday evening.
When it opens with a pre-kindergarten and kindergarten in 2013,
Bricolage will be the culmination of years of research into education reform in an innovation incubator called 4.0
Schools.
Through by a million - dollar grant from the Walton Family Foundation, 4.0
Schools funded Densen's research as he planned the concepts underlying
Bricolage Academy — including a significant emphasis on listening sessions around New Orleans — and will next help him hire a leadership team and begin training educators for the
school.
After graduate
school, she became fascinated with
bricolage artists, who make their work from found objects.