In 2008,a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in novel Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Shahan submitted a 170-page application, and outlining his plans for Drew,which he renamed occur Academy, an acronym for the school’s […]The post Charter schools aren’t measuring up to their promises appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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