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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017.

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Held back, but not helped

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In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. By the 2015-16 school year, the latest data available online , Louisiana retained 4 percent of its students, still roughly twice the 2.2 Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. percent national average.

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In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

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Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six — all at a time when the region desperately needs more college grads. Only 11 percent of the students who entered UMPI in 2005 graduated in four years, and only 30 percent graduated in six.

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

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Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Later, math is what most often keeps students from graduating from college, experts say.

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Charter schools nearly destroyed this New Orleans school. Now it will become one.

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Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. He noted that many of the challenges began well before he came on in 2015. Morial Convention Center on May 14, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now she wants others to learn that history.

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No longer ruled out: an educator develops strategies to keep court-involved students in school

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So a social worker called his home on a December morning in 2015 when he didn’t come to school. NEW ORLEANS — School absences were rare for Lorenzo Elliott, the drum major of the George Washington Carver High School band and an honor roll student with a 96 percent attendance rate. His family said that police had picked him up.

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Why high school football is making a comeback in New Orleans

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His mother, Tyra Hales, signed him up for a youth team at a park near their home in Gentilly, a predominantly black neighborhood that was inundated by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters for weeks in 2005. By 2015, Renaissance had earned a B rating from the state. All the things we do are in service to that. I mean sports. I mean arts.

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