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.
About the Author: 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.
[...] committee, are less enthusiastic. This August, the association will open the doors of the brand new Greater Gentilly Area High School. The neighborhood that surrounds this new school was once home to four public schools–all [...]
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[...] committee, are less enthusiastic. This August, the association will open the doors of the brand new Greater Gentilly Area High School. The neighborhood that surrounds this new school was once home to four public schools–all [...]