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Education Advocates Devote Month of October to Policy Change

“This is the most important School Board race since 1906,” Deirdre Johnson Burel, who heads the Orleans Public Education Network, says. “I say that because 1906 was the first time we had an elected school board and the board after this election will be directly responsible for implementing a governance structure after we regain control of schools from RSD.”

Local education advocates announced Sept. 27 plans to devote the entire month of October to achieving a revamped governance structure for the Orleans Parish School Board. The move comes in the waning weeks of the School Board race and as residents and elected officials increase talk about wresting control of area schools from the Recovery School District.

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Education Advocates Devote Month of October to Policy Change