Date of Award
5-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Urban Studies
Department
School of Urban Planning and Regional Studies
Major Professor
Gladstone, David
Second Advisor
Hirsch, Arnold
Third Advisor
Luft, Rachel
Abstract
This study examines the privatization movement in the post-Katrina New Orleans education system. Less than a month after Katrina, a well-financed charter school movement was moving swiftly through the ravaged city. Nationally, a network of right-wing think tanks and school choice advocates descended on New Orleans shortly after the storm. Locally, state legislators and local leaders pushed from the inside for reform in the way of charter schools. Aided by a state takeover of schools and federal and corporate financing, the "great experiment" had begun. This study strives to cut through the façade of the charter school movement, and to investigate and explain the real motivations of the expected outcomes of the privatizers. Finally, the current injustices caused by the experiment being conducted in New Orleans are reviewed as an extension of the historical racial inequities of the school system.
Recommended Citation
Goff, Sarah LeBlanc, "When Education Ceases to be Public: The Privatization of the New Orleans School System After Hurricane Katrina" (2009). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 911.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/911
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