[CharterSchools] Superintendent Lewis: One way to go! Forward!

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How New Orleans’s Unique School System Is Working for Our Students, Families & Neighborhoods and Reclaiming the Future for Our City...and excerpt from an article by Dr. Henderson Lewis, Superintendent NOPS
As we celebrate National School Choice Week, I want to recognize the hard work that our community has done to improve our schools. And I want to look forward a bit. As a system that is neither decentralized nor completely centralized, we have the most unusual management structure of any school district in America. It is an approach that is working for our students, families and neighborhoods. New Orleans has ushered in a new era of education, one that embraces the flexibility for each school to determine its path when it comes to hiring teachers, choosing curriculum and establishing school culture, while also insisting that schools be accountable for improving student outcomes...Our schools in New Orleans are serving students better than ever before, but we must keep moving forward, even when it gets tough. As I said in my new year’s letter to our community, together, we have done important work to rebuild our district. Now, there’s only one way to go: forward.Read the full article here:

https://www.the74million.org/article/lewis-how-new-orleanss-unique-school-system-is-working-for-our-students-families-neighborhoods-and-reclaiming-the-future-for-our-city/?fbclid=IwAR2NtAfx_wP63FH4wOVgCSwmiVRNM7At7nlSo12pBS6dMrMaBqxeFPHClcA



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