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Editor’s note: Firstline renames Dibert School with move to new Wheatley campus

by Marta Jewson

John Dibert Community School moved into a new facility at the Phillis Wheatley campus in the fall of 2014. The charter school has been continuously overseen by charter management organization Firstline Schools, Inc. When it moved to its new location, Firstline renamed the school Phillis Wheatley Community School. For prior stories about Wheatley/Dibert please see the John Dibert page.

Marta Jewson

Marta Jewson is an independent reporter based in New Orleans. Marta has covered New Orleans schools for 15 years through the nation's largest education reform experiment and was instrumental in holding schools accountable to sunshine laws during the rapid expansion of charter schools in the city. She focuses on education, health and climate.

She earned her journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin.

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