Go see "Left Behind, The story of the New Orleans Public Schools"

[aenelein]

Tulane aired this new documentary on the state of new orleans public schools last night and it was sadly not terribly surprising and still abosolutely enraging. I grew up in this system and knew only a fraction of how bad it actually is. I told the director, from within this system I never realized that the Super Intendant is not a position that

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[stagemonkey]

Kent,

Please let me know if you hear any word that this is going to be screened in DC in a venue where non-congress-critters can see it.

[songgirl12]

Holla at me if you get it screened at Loyola, I'd really like to see it,

If you wanted to pass along the message to Loyola/Tulane, there is something you can do to help. Our schools desperately need supplies and I would LOVE to get a tutoring program started; most of the kids at my school hadn't been in a classroom for more than a semester before we opened last month. Also, we can ALWAYS use things like instruments, staplers, pencils, paper, instruments, books, instruments, etc.

Did you read the last entry I posted? Every damn one of those kids has a story like that, and they're being put into an inadequate education system. GRAR.