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"Within 19 months, with most of the city's poor residents still in exile, New Orleans' public school system had been almost completely replaced by privately run charter schools."
This is about .01% of the net impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans because of Katrina. You could take any disaster and find some kind of profit or change from it that was economically advantageous to someone. The world isn't ever perfectly static except in the dreams of planners of command economies.
New Orleans is a City of Great Positives and Great Negatives.
Pre-Katrina, our Public Schools were a Great Negative (along with Crime & Summer Weather). Twice the citizens voted in "Reform" School Boards, and each turned into self serving grafters & grand standers.
Very few locals object to the mix of improving schools we have today.
A public elementary school 7 blocks from me may develop into the best public elementary school in the nation. All classes but English & Geography are taught in French by native French speakers (Supported by the Republic of France). The goal is for all students to be fluent in English & French, and with three years of Spanish and two years of a non-Latin alphabet language (Russian, Chinese, Japanese) by the time they enter 7th grade.
Students have a choice of the remaining public schools, public schools taken over by the State of Louisiana the year before Katrina for academic failure (the worst of the worst), a variety of charter schools and private schools (half pre-K). The Catholic schools are giving a number of "free rides" for displaced children returning.
Best Hopes for Better Education,
Alan