Author Archive for Kai Carter
Carter is a master in public policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she also is a senior editor for the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. She is specifically interested in how policy impacts minority and underserved populations. Originally from Los Angeles, Carter graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s in international relations. In 2007, she secured a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for studies at the University of the South Pacific and interned at the United Nations Development Program in Fiji. After, Carter worked at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
The Wheels Go ‘Round
Travel with a bus-load of kindergartners across New Orleans’ new charter landscape.
As charter schools replace much of the old public school system in New Orleans, many historical school names are disappearing. Learn more from this interactive graphic.
Rebuilding Communities From the School Up, cont’d
Redefining Community
The distance between students and schools has also detached families from their neighborhoods. Previously, residents say, parents could depend on neighbors to pick up their children once the school day was done. Now families must work to form new bonds and support networks in more fractured school communities. This all becomes more complicated if [...]
Samuel J. Green Charter School
Reopened in 2006 in the building that formerly housed Samuel J. Green Middle School, a traditional public school.
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Greater Gentilly Area High School
Scheduled to open in August 2009 on the former Lake Area Middle School site. Its Education Committee is still determining whether or not the technology-focused school will be a charter.
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Andrew H. Wilson Charter School
Opened as a charter in 2007 in the former McDonogh School #7 building.
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Akili Academy
Opened in 2008 on the grounds of the boarded up F.W. Gregory Junior High School.
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Rebuilding Communities From the School Up
Hurricane Katrina washed away most of New Orleans’ traditional public schools and cleared the way for a new “open-choice” system dominated by charters. These schools draw students from all over the city. What happens when communities are fractured and new ones emerge?
