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

The Hechinger Report

Up until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, McDonogh 35 had required entering ninth graders to have a high level of academic preparation. Rather than operating schools, it is our job to approve who has the privilege to operate a school,” Lewis said at an October 2018 press conference. Now she wants others to learn that history.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

And even before June’s historic civil rights protests, the issue of racism permeated the National Association for Gifted Children’s (largely white) November 2019 conference in Albuquerque. Jolly wrote in 2005. There are gifted dropouts. In panel after panel, experts and educators wrung their hands and proffered solutions.

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