Education Nation event puts Louisiana schools in spotlight
April 15, 2013
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The auditorium at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts was transformed into a television studio Friday as preschool owners and professors joined politicians and policy-makers for a conversation about all things education with Hoda Kotb, co-host of NBC’s “Today” show.
Throughout the day of speeches, panels and one-on-one interviews, New Orleans — and specifically education in New Orleans — was referred to as a laboratory for innovation and change, a petri dish, a model for the rest of the country and the Silicon Valley of education.
Next year, the city will continue to outpace all others in the privatization of schools with more than 90 percent of public school children attending charter schools.