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		<title>A conversation with a New Orleans Parent about Vouchers and Choosing a School.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I received a call from a very distress parent who was concerned about her child&#8217;s voucher school and it&#8217;s ability to provide a quality education for her 9 year old child. Sadly this child has already attended 3 different private schools and one charter school. This mother was surprised to find out that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=169&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Parents Across America Founders:  Karran Harper Royal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This profile is part of an ongoing series of portraits of key Parents Across America  members. Karran Harper Royal’s articulate, impassioned advocacy for children has made her a familiar figure in her hometown of New Orleans and a sought-after speaker the national scene. In public meetings, government hearings, conference presentations, radio programs and television broadcasts, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=184&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Louisiana&#8217;s Worthless Accountability Plan for Voucher Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all that fanfare about accountability, John White has crafted a completely worthless accountability plan for the voucher schools.  It&#8217;s  a shame that so many people on the BESE can&#8217;t read.  All but 2 Board members voted to support the plan.  Only members Lottie Beebe and Carolyn Hill voted to reject this plan and send [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=178&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Choice as a Red Herring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s so much talk about &#8220;choice&#8221; as a strategy in public education reform. This rhetoric distracts us from the real barriers to educating ALL children. The push for school choice at any cost is very destructive to the most vulnerable children, and it leads to the destruction our democracy. Public education serves a real purpose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=176&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Privatize!! Privatize?</title>
		<link>http://edutalknola.com/2011/11/01/privatize-privatize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let nothing in this world evade Jindal’s plan to steer business to his cronies Federal grant writers, and those who review the applications, rely on obscure language when applications are written and when terminated.  The current rescinding of an $80 million grant to Louisiana is a case in point. The original grant approval was based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=170&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans:  Beachhead for Corporate Takeover of Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://edutalknola.com/2011/10/28/new-orleans-beachhead-for-corporate-takeover-of-public-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Orleans The national media consensus is that New Orleans has discovered the miracle cure for urban education.  Their conclusion is largely drawn from data provided by the Louisiana Department of Education, which obviously has a vested interest in emphasizing the good and ignoring the bad in the post-Katrina education changes.  New Orleans is important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=167&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty Skyrockets in New Orleans: 65% of Black Children Under Age of Five Living in Poverty</title>
		<link>http://edutalknola.com/2011/10/17/poverty-skyrockets-in-new-orleans-65-of-black-children-under-age-of-five-living-in-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Blog:                                                                                                           [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=164&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Deception of the &#8220;Lottery&#8221; at Lycee Francais and Audubon Schools The Misuse of Charter Schools &#8212; Part II</title>
		<link>http://edutalknola.com/2011/10/05/the-deception-of-the-lottery-at-lycee-francais-and-audubon-schools-the-misuse-of-charter-schools-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research on Reforms, Inc. October 2011                                                                                                   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=158&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Hurricane Katrina Have an Effect on Post-K Children?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The premise of this story is that the disaster of Hurricane Katrina was the weather event and that 5-year old children are unaffected today. Not surprisingly they use the example of an uptown resident who now works for the RSD. But for the 118,000 blacks who never made it back, and the tens of thousands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=149&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Broken Promises: New Orleans Public School Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students, teachers, parents, community members and the press are invited to join the John McDonogh Alumni Association, Parents Across America NOLA, the Downtown Neighborhood Improvement Association, and the Esplanade Ridge/Treme Civic Association in front of John McDonogh High School, 2426 Esplanade Avenue, at 5:30 PM on August 29, 2011 to commemorate the sixth anniversary of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edutalknola.com&#038;blog=20515463&#038;post=145&#038;subd=edutalknola&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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