[CharterSchools] Washington Post: Lake Forest Elementary Charter a beacon of hope

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 From the Washington Post article which also has a great video about NO East: 


And there are beacons of hope. As soon as she was able to return, Mardele Early, 61, and six former New Orleans public school teachers developed Lake Forest Elementary, a public charter school considered one of the best in New Orleans.
 
“In my heart, I knew if I started a school, people would come,” Early said.
 
In 2006, Lake Forest opened its doors in a building powered by generator because electric and telephone service still hadn’t been restored. Nine years later, the school educates 600 students, from jittery pre-kindergartners all the way up to restless eighth-graders.
 
On a recent morning, they all lined up in the gymnasium for Early’s daily pep talk. A few dozen parents looked on, including Kenyatta Ford-Theodore, 42, whose daughters are in first and sixth grade.
 
Ford-Theodore said she enrolled the girls in Lake Forest a few years ago when she realized the free public school offered a better education than the expensive private school she had been paying for elsewhere in New Orleans. Her family soon moved to the East, and she opened a Papa John’s franchise, one of several businesses working to revive the local strip mall.
 
“This is a good community,” Ford-Theodore said. “We just need people to believe in it.”


http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/left-behind-new-orleanss-black-middle-class-wonders-what-recovery/2015/08/29/ac9b0d3a-4cd8-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html 


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