I encourage y'all to organize yourselves, to organize your constituents. |
I would be surprised if they get 10,000 students this year. I'll be surprised if they end up with 25,000 next year. A tremendous amount of people are out of town where they're likely to find better housing, better schools and better jobs. |
It's hard to find a silver lining from Katrina, but one silver lining is that the school board can start anew. And if any school district needs to start anew, it's Orleans. |
Our fourth-graders were very successful. They had just about the same passing rate as our eighth-graders, even though they had to achieve at a higher standard. We have to figure out how to have the same success at eighth grade. |
This is the first negative trend line we have had in anything since accountability began. |