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Author: Andre Perry

Looking beyond ‘might supremacist’ school principal to the deeper issues

June 27, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
The case raises questions about last-chance schools themselves.

STEM learning outside school can be a life-saver in a violent New Orleans

June 20, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
Summertime and weekend programs can supercharge learning.

Their art proves therapeutic for young poets in violence-torn New Orleans

May 2, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019
And yet arts programming in schools nationwide is on the wane.

If TOPS must get cut, make sure the well-to-do — not the poor — bear the burden

April 4, 2017 Updated November 7, 2019

In threatened TOPS cuts, middle class glimpses reality faced by low-income families

February 23, 2016 Updated November 7, 2019
College will be out of reach for more Louisianans if state budget mess guts scholarship program.

School board should look for opportunity in upcoming court ruling on post-Katrina teacher layoffs

October 8, 2014 Updated November 7, 2019
Acknowledge that teachers were wronged and start working toward a unified school district.

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