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The Wheels Go ‘Round

Travel with a bus-load of kindergartners across New Orleans’ new charter landscape.

Kai Carter | Jul 30, 2009 | Comments 3

Teaching Pipeline Runs Straight Out of New Orleans

In New Orleans, demand for teachers outweighs the local supply. Programs like Teach for America have moved in to fill the gap. Now, some say, these out-of-towners clog the pipeline.

Meghan Berry | Jul 30, 2009 | Comments 12

Akili Academy

Opened in 2008 on the grounds of the boarded up F.W. Gregory Junior High School.

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Kai Carter | Jul 27, 2009 | Comments 0

Interactive - The Charter Explosion

Track the dramatic expansion of charter schools across the U.S. and trace the major factors in this important trend, with our interactive map and timeline.
Reporting Education -- Through the Charter Lens

Since early 2009, the Columbia News21 team took notebooks, cameras and curiosities to places such as New Orleans, the Twin Cities, Newark, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., to explore the new marketplace of hybrid, public-private schools.
The result is this web site -- a deeply reported, richly multimedia and interactive web site, produced by a dozen Columbia journalism fellows, their editors and a group of new media producers.
Travel History with Our Interactive Timelines

Learn how Catholic school education and American Indian school programs have developed since the country's founding, in our clickable multimedia timelines.
Watch Storm's Impact on New Orleans Schools
National Charter Schools Conference Coverage

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b85ec06033" >National Charter School Conference Coverage</a>
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