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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 [...]
Kai Carter | Jul 27, 2009 | Comments 1
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?
Kai Carter | Jul 27, 2009 | Comments 2
