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On August 29, 2005 New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in what would turn out to be one of the nation’s worst natural disasters ever. Even before the waters had receded, people were clamoring about building New Orleans a new school system from scratch to replace what had been one of the nation’s poorest-performing school districts. As it turns out, the charter school movement had been looking for a chance to prove themselves, so New Orleans was the perfect opportunity.

Public Schools in Pre-Katrina New Orleans

Before Hurrican Katrina hit, New Orleans’ public school district had just 128 schools serving 65,000 students, according to the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans. At this time, almost 80% of New Orleans’ students lived under the poverty line and about 95% high school seniors had tested below basic proficiency in both Math and English on statewide school exit exams. The public schools were so bad that one in three students were in private or parochial schools, way above the national average.

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