[CharterSchools] International High School of New Orleans awarded “Best Kept Secret Award” from DDD

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May 20, 2014



Contact: Heather Harper, Eastbank Collaborative of Charter Schools  (504) 897-6110


 
TheInternational High School of New Orleans awarded “Best Kept Secret Award” fromthe Downtown Development District
 
            If you have lived in NewOrleans a long time, you might pass the old Rabouin building on CarondeletStreet and assume it is business as usual in the old 1935 art-deco building.But it isn’t.
                  Anew charter school took over that property in 2010 and has been honored for itsquiet clean-up and repurposing of the structure into aninternationally-recognized high school.
The Downtown Development District of New Orleans(DDD), during its 2014 Downtown NOLA Awards, honored the International HighSchool of New Orleans with the “Best Kept Secret” Award, given to a Downtown"gem" that is low profile, but deserves recognition for its programs,services or amenities, said Director Kurt Weigel.
                  TheDowntown NOLA Awards were created as an annual program to recognize exceptionalaccomplishments of Downtown NOLA property owners, businesses, residents,workers and organizations. 
                  “We are proud to receive this award and to be acknowledged for our contributionto the vitality of downtown New Orleans,” said  Interim Head of School Nan Ryan. Since occupying thebuilding, the school community has conducted an extensive cleaning of thebuilding, restored the floors, and created a thriving educational environment.
“But our parents and students don’t want to be thebest kept secret in the city. We want to be the best neighbor a community couldhave!” said Ms. Ryan.
                  TheInternational High School of New Orleans is Louisiana’s only open enrollmentpublic high school to offer French and Spanish immersion programs. The worldlanguage program at IHS includes Spanish, French, Mandarin and Arabic courses. 
A full college preparatory curriculum iscomplemented by an Authorized International Baccalaureate Programme, AdvancedPlacement and Bard Dual Enrollment courses.  
The charter’s board recently selected Sean Wilson asthe school’s new headmaster.
For more information on IHSNO, go to: www.ihsnola.org
 

Photo: NanRyan, Interim Head of  School ofthe International High School of New Orleans with the Downtown DevelopmentDistrict of New Orleans (DDD) “Best Kept Secret” Award, given at the 2014Downtown NOLA Awards.




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