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Not only did the RSD take over most schools after Hurricane Katrina, but all of the system's teachers were fired.

Louisiana, another state praised by charter - school advocates following the remaking of New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina, scored particularly well because of its high growth rate, the number of poor students its charter schools serve and academic growth compared with other public schools in the state.

UTNO's ranks were decimated by the state takeover of failing schools after Hurricane Katrina and OPSB's decision to fire all its teachers.

The goal of the study was to assess how school spending patterns have been affected by the city's shift to charter schools after Hurricane Katrina.

A new report finds that New Orleans schools spend more on administration and less on teaching than than they would have if they had not undergone a transformation to charter schools after Hurricane Katrina.

State Weighing the Future of Struggling Houston Schools After Hurricane Harvey Disrupts District Calendar the74million.org/state-weighing...

Whether Broad and other reformers involved in New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 «wreaked havoc» or «destroyed» the school district is a matter of perspective, according to at least one study.

Author Bio: Sarah Carr is senior editor at the Hechinger Report and author of Hope Against Hope, which tells the story of New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new report on New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina finds the school system substantially changed from its condition five years ago.

Tulane contributed more than $ 1 million to reopen the school after Hurricane Katrina, university spokesman Keith Brannon said.

Not exact matches

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Going to school, having clean drinking water, and even getting regular trash service remains a daily challenge months after Hurricane Maria swept through.

«If there's increased transmission of mosquito - borne diseases [after the hurricanes], it'll be from West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis,» explained Duane Gubler, an expert on mosquito - borne diseases with Duke - NUS Medical School.

«Expect a burden of mental health problems, which will include depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and it's particularly going to impact groups who don't have access to rapid opportunities for recovery,» Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, told Vox after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas.

Sprint 1Million Project is helping more than 700 high school students from Puerto Rico who were displaced after Hurricane Maria and are now enrolled in Orange County Public Schools.

After both earthquake and hurricane destruction in Haiti, Sandals Foundation supported various partners including: Population Services with 205,000 Aqua Tabs; Global Orphan with clothing; the Salesian Missions with recovery kits for 400 families; and All Hands Volunteers with the recovery of six schools and health clinics.

After hurricane Katrina flooded the city, the school he attended closed so Duy decided to pursue a career in hospitality full - time.

After Hurricane Katrina flooded the city, the school he attended closed so Duy decided to pursue a career in hospitality full - time.

The first came after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, his first season as LSU's head coach, when the chaos - compatible new guy helped steer an entire school through a natural disaster.

I've had the privilege of working with three of the four equipment grant winners, as well as with schools that we donated equipment to after Hurricane Katrina.

In Houston, Carranza was widely praised for leading the successful effort to reopen schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey.

The state is preparing for as many as 12,000 new residents who have been uprooted from their lives in the Caribbean after Hurricane Maria destroyed homes, damaged schools and wiped out the electrical grid.

North Rockland High School is raising money to help elementary students in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria destroyed their sSchool is raising money to help elementary students in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria destroyed their schoolschool.

Nearly 80 percent of students and faculty at P.S. 38 were affected by the storm, and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott commended the school's staff for opening right when school re-started after the hurricane.

BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM The North Rockland School board meeting began with the North Rockland High School Marching Band performing in honor of the hard work done by district employees to get Thiells Elementary up and running after it was flooded by Hurricane Irene.

Carranza won national praise for leading the successful effort to reopen Houston schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit, taking care of students, families and teachers who suffered.

De Blasio noted that in Houston, Carranza — who was de Blasio's second choice for the position — was praised for leading a successful effort to reopen schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey, which included securing transportation for students living in shelters and offering counseling for students and staff.

Puerto Rico's governor says there will be no classes on Monday because hundreds of schools still do not have power or water after the island took a hit from Hurricane Irma.

«After Hurricane Katrina devastated our city, the cardiology department found that we had very busy on - call nights,» said Anand Irimpen, M.D., study lead author and professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine and chief of cardiology at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

«Few may have noticed that after Hurricane Harvey, her foundation and the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries provided a combined $ 2 million for resources, supplies and books at schools and public libraries disrupted by the storm disaster.

After a summer of cottage entertaining, followed with back - to - school beginnings, followed with Hurricane Irma and the rest of it, I'm...

A year after Hurricane Katrina, Al Collins, a high school basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana, assembles a team of players who had previously attended five different schools before the disaster and leads them on the path to the state championships.

Reporter Andrew Ujifusa gives an update from Puerto Rico on where the U.S. territory's schools stand several months after Hurricane Maria.

But after the wind, rain, and waters of Hurricane Katrina had subsided, only the city's private and charter schools had the wherewithal to reopen in a timely fashion.

A week after Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in decades, there's less immediate concern about when schools will reopen and more about when children and families will have access to food, running water, and power.

As is now well known, after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's newly created Recovery School District (RSD), which operated on a small scale before the storm, rapidly expanded its footprint in New Orleans.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina hit, Cindy Chang of the New Orleans Times Picayune describes the transformation that has taken place in the city's school system.

After Hurricane Katrina, the median student evacuee was out of school for five weeks.

And in New Orleans, a substantial group of African - American voters believed that the financial harm done by firing thousands of teachers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 undermined the economic base of the black community, hurting students more than the school improvements helped them.

After Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, New Orleans essentially had the opportunity to start its school system anew.

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans principal Rene Lewis - Carter went above and beyond to reinvent her elementary school.

After Hurricane Katrina struck, he championed plans for the state to take over most of the schools in New Orleans under the Recovery School District, which oversees 37 schools now operating in the city, including some charters.

Before the storm there were 5 charter schools in a district of 65,000 students; by May of 2006, ten months after the hurricane, there were 18 charters in a New Orleans Public School district educating just 12,000 students (see Figure 2).

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public schools bear little resemblance to the disintegrating system that was further undone by the catastrophic flood.

Kathryn Newmark and Veronique de Rugy's brief mention of the comparatively rapid rebound of Catholic schools in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina («Hope after Katrina,» features, Fall 2006) casts the private school sector as «more nimble» than the public system.

Gloria E. Colon, and from left, Glenda Ruiz, her mother, Rosa Rodriguez, back, and Ruiz's two sons, Josh Rivera, 6, and Abdiel Rivera, 8, are using a classroom at Judith Avivas Elementary School in Utuado, Puerto Rico, as their temporary home after Hurricane Maria destroyed their house last month.

As was the case before Hurricane Katrina (see «Hope after Katrina,» feature, Fall 2006), private schools educate about one - third of the students in Orleans Parish (see Figure 1).

Can Puerto Rico's schools get back on their feet in just over a month after the island was devastated by Hurricane Maria?