When I was in the 11th grade, my family had to move suddenly from one part of Massachusetts to my grandparents’ house in Boston. My parents weren’t able to line up new housing or new business in another state as quickly as they hoped but they were steadily working on it. My parents had ambitious […]
Deborah Roberts “We are soldiers” (2019) A note: The following was meant to be a reminder to Black people of their abilities and talents to build a better education for their children in New Orleans and beyond after COVID-19. Before I could hit send on my reflections on what COVID exposes and teaches us and […]
And we paid him not to Earlier in 2019 local investigative reporting showed that after four years and $40 million, the state’s voucher program- the Louisiana’s Scholarship Program- had produced not just ineffective but even negative student results. Specifically, the report showed that participating students generally had lower scores on state standardized tests than their […]
