By Carol Burris
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans, Louisiana, in ruins, taking nearly 1,400 lives, washing away entire neighborhoods, and destroying the city’s public schools. As Ashana Bigard, a New Orleans parent and contributor to The Progressive, writes in her new book Beyond Resilience that in the disaster’s aftermath, parents expected to be partners in the rebuilding of their children’s schools. But while families wanted schools with science labs, arts programs, and strong community roots, they instead received “no-excuses” discipline policies and endless test prep.
You can read the story by Carol Burris in the Progressive Magazine here.