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Thursday, July 8, 2010

It took a hurricane to create functional New Orleans schools--what will it take for Missouri schools?

Check out this great article on HotAir today. When a hurricane wipes out schools, what's a city to do? This report shows how reinstating failed systems is not the way to proceed. Kudos to New Orleans for promoting a system to truly help students, not the unions.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/08/reason-tv-the-education-renaissance-of-katrina/

What is it going to take for our government to make sweeping changes such as New Orleans instituted? How many schools/districts need to fail before we see changes that work? Throwing billions of dollars AT THE SAME STRUCTURE HASN'T WORKED IN 40 YEARS.

We want REAL change for our schools. We want our kids to succeed, not line the pockets of unions and promote the agenda of a governor and Board of Education which acquiesces state power.

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