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Author:   Raynard Sanders
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   14
Weight:   0.525kg
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9781433137440

ISBN 10:   1433137445
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   31 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Foreword – Acknowledgments – The Coup D’état – Privatizing Public Education: New Orleans the Perfect Place – Intended and Unintended Consequences: The Assault – School Communities Disenfranchised and Destroyed – The New Orleans Public School Gold Rush – Old Lessons Learned in New Orleans – Glossary – Appendix A: Picard Letter to the Department of Education – Appendix B: Act No. 35 – Appendix C: Charter School Grant Program Amounts Allocated to Charter Schools – Appendix D: Louisiana’s 7th Grade Cohort Graduation Rate – Appendix E: Reasons for Judgement, Eddy Oliver versus Orleans Parish School Board – Appendix F: Carver Civil Rights Complaint – Appendix G: Civil Rights Complaint on School – Appendix H: Data Sharing Agreement – Appendix I: Act No. 91 – Index.

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Raynard Sanders follows the trail of money to show how a group of white community-and-political leaders snatched control of the public schools from the citizens of New Orleans. They turned the schools over to profit-driven `reformers' who made it nearly impossible for parents to participate in any meaningful way in their children's schools, and they discarded a largely African American work force-eerily reminiscent of what happened in New Orleans following Reconstruction. Sanders peers behind the curtain of the `New Orleans Miracle,' and what he shows us is not pretty. -Al Kennedy, Historian and Author of Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans Raynard Sanders provides a vivid account of how the educational `Miracle in New Orleans' following Hurricane Katrina has created an educational marketplace that offers `choice' to the most advantaged students and a revolving door of failing schools to the least advantaged, while re-segregating the city even more starkly than before. Sanders meticulously outlines the equity and access issues that have emerged in a marketplace that provides only the illusion of school choice to many families who have witnessed the destruction of neighborhood schools that were once the hub of their communities. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District is critically important reading for those who care about the future of public education and the fight for equal rights in American society. -Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and President, Learning Policy Institute Illegal. Fraudulent. Criminal. Unconstitutional. These words merely understate the dehumanizing abuses the families, children and educators in New Orleans are continuing to fight back against. When I lived there and worked at the University of New Orleans, in close partnership with the public schools, I was inspired by the rich cultural heritage preserved and passed on in neighborhood institutions, including the city schools. What has been done to the schools and neighborhoods in this city is nothing short of war-not only against the Black community but also against freedom and democracy. It is my fervent hope that in the tradition of David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, Raynard Sanders's meticulously researched and courageous eye-witness testimony, The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District, will also serve as a radicalizing wake-up call to those of us who cherish liberation and believe in defending human freedom. Let us all say with the people of New Orleans: `We won't bow down. We don't know how.' -Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University The struggle over the fate and future of public education has played out with notable intensity in New Orleans, Louisiana, never more significantly than in recent years as NOLA has become-post-Hurricane Katrina-the laboratory for a thoroughgoing corporate takeover of public education. In this compelling account the educator/activist/scholar Raynard Sanders documents the treacherous alliance that formed between old-school white supremacists and modern-day corporate raiders eager to get their grasping hands on what they perversely perceive as the `public education market.' The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District illustrates the case in compelling detail, and shows us precisely what's at stake: education as a basic human right versus schooling as a product for sale in the marketplace; democracy as a vital force for human development or the veritable erasure of the public; a step forward in the abiding and courageous press of Black parents for a full and decent education for their children as a pathway to authentic equality versus a further continuance of the shameful American tradition of apartheid schooling. This is a necessary book. -William Ayers, Author of several books on education including Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World, To Teach, and Teaching Toward Freedom

The struggle over the fate and future of public education has played out with notable intensity in New Orleans, Louisiana, never more significantly than in recent years as NOLA has become-post-Hurricane Katrina-the laboratory for a thoroughgoing corporate takeover of public education. In this compelling account the educator/activist/scholar Raynard Sanders documents the treacherous alliance that formed between old-school white supremacists and modern-day corporate raiders eager to get their grasping hands on what they perversely perceive as the `public education market.' The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools illustrates the case in compelling detail, and shows us precisely what's at stake: education as a basic human right versus schooling as a product for sale in the marketplace; democracy as a vital force for human development or the veritable erasure of the public; a step forward in the abiding and courageous press of Black parents for a full and decent education for their children as a pathway to authentic equality versus a further continuance of the shameful American tradition of apartheid schooling. This is a necessary book. -William Ayers, Author of several books on education including Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World, To Teach, and Teaching Toward Freedom Illegal. Fraudulent. Criminal. Unconstitutional. These words merely understate the dehumanizing abuses the families, children and educators in New Orleans are continuing to fight back against. When I lived there and worked at the University of New Orleans, in close partnership with the public schools, I was inspired by the rich cultural heritage preserved and passed on in neighborhood institutions, including the city schools. What has been done to the schools and neighborhoods in this city is nothing short of war-not only against the Black community but also against freedom and democracy. It is my fervent hope that in the tradition of David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, Raynard Sanders's meticulously researched and courageous eye-witness testimony, The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools, will also serve as a radicalizing wake-up call to those of us who cherish liberation and believe in defending human freedom. Let us all say with the people of New Orleans: `We won't bow down. We don't know how.' -Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University Raynard Sanders follows the trail of money to show how a group of white community-and-political leaders snatched control of the public schools from the citizens of New Orleans. They turned the schools over to profit-driven `reformers' who made it nearly impossible for parents to participate in any meaningful way in their children's schools, and they discarded a largely African American work force-eerily reminiscent of what happened in New Orleans following Reconstruction. Sanders peers behind the curtain of the `New Orleans Miracle,' and what he shows us is not pretty. -Al Kennedy, Historian and Author of Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans Raynard Sanders provides a vivid account of how the educational `Miracle in New Orleans' following Hurricane Katrina has created an educational marketplace that offers `choice' to the most advantaged students and a revolving door of failing schools to the least advantaged, while re-segregating the city even more starkly than before. Sanders meticulously outlines the equity and access issues that have emerged in a marketplace that provides only the illusion of school choice to many families who have witnessed the destruction of neighborhood schools that were once the hub of their communities. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools is critically important reading for those who care about the future of public education and the fight for equal rights in American society. -Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and President, Learning Policy Institute

Raynard Sanders provides a vivid account of how the educational Miracle in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina has created an educational marketplace that offers choice to the most advantaged students and a revolving door of failing schools to the least advantaged, while re-segregating the city even more starkly than before. Sanders meticulously outlines the equity and access issues that have emerged in a marketplace that provides only the illusion ofR school choice to many families who have witnessed the destruction of neighborhood schools that were once the hub of their communities. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District is critically important reading for those who care about the future of public education and the fight for equal rights in American society. -- Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and President, Learning Policy Institute The struggle over the fate and future of public education has played out with notable intensity in New Orleans, Louisiana, never more significantly than in recent years as NOLA has become-post-Hurricane Katrina-the laboratory for a thoroughgoing corporate takeover of public education. In this compelling account the educator/activist/scholar Raynard Sanders documents the treacherous alliance that formed between old-school white supremacists and modern-day corporate raiders eager to get their grasping hands on what they perversely perceive as the public education market. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District illustrates the case in compelling detail, and shows us precisely what's at stake: education as a basic human right versus schooling as a product for sale in the marketplace; democracy as a vital force for human development or the veritable erasure of the public; a step forward in the the abiding and courageous press of Black parents for a full and decent education for their children as a pathway to authentic equality versus a further continuance of the shameful American tradition of apartheid schooling. This is a necessary book. -- William Ayers is the author of several books on education including Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World, To Teach, and Teaching toward Freedom. Dr. Raynard Sanders follows the trail of money to show how a group of white community-and-political leaders snatched control of the public schools from the citizens of New Orleans. They turned the schools over to profit-driven reformers who made it nearly impossible for parents to participate in any meaningful way in their children's schools, and they discarded a largely African American work force-eerily reminiscent of what happened in New Orleans following Reconstruction. Dr. Sanders peers behind the curtain of the New Orleans Miracle, and what he shows us is not pretty. -- Al Kennedy, Ph.D., historian and author of Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans, and the essay, The history of public education in New Orleans still matters (if you want to learn about the malignant legacy of white supremacy). Illegal. Fraudulent. Criminal. Unconstitutional. These words merely understate the dehumanizing abuses the families, children and educators in New Orleans are continuing to fight back against. When I lived there and worked at the University of New Orleans, in close partnership with the public schools, I was inspired by the rich cultural heritage preserved and passed on in neighborhood institutions, including the city schools. What has been done to the schools and neighborhoods in this city is nothing short of war-not only against the Black community but also against freedom and democracy. It is my fervent hope that in the tradition of David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, Dr. Raynard Sanders's meticulously researched and courageous eye-witness testimony, The Coup D'etat of New Orleans Public Schools, will also serve as a radicalizing wake-up call to those of us who cherish liberation and believe in defending human freedom. Let us all say with the people of New Orleans: We won't bow down. We don't know how. -- Dr. Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership at Georgia State University

Raynard Sanders provides a vivid account of how the educational `Miracle in New Orleans' following Hurricane Katrina has created an educational marketplace that offers `choice' to the most advantaged students and a revolving door of failing schools to the least advantaged, while re-segregating the city even more starkly than before. Sanders meticulously outlines the equity and access issues that have emerged in a marketplace that provides only the illusion of school choice to many families who have witnessed the destruction of neighborhood schools that were once the hub of their communities. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District is critically important reading for those who care about the future of public education and the fight for equal rights in American society. -Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and President, Learning Policy Institute Raynard Sanders follows the trail of money to show how a group of white community-and-political leaders snatched control of the public schools from the citizens of New Orleans. They turned the schools over to profit-driven `reformers' who made it nearly impossible for parents to participate in any meaningful way in their children's schools, and they discarded a largely African American work force-eerily reminiscent of what happened in New Orleans following Reconstruction. Sanders peers behind the curtain of the `New Orleans Miracle,' and what he shows us is not pretty. -Al Kennedy, Historian and Author of Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans Illegal. Fraudulent. Criminal. Unconstitutional. These words merely understate the dehumanizing abuses the families, children and educators in New Orleans are continuing to fight back against. When I lived there and worked at the University of New Orleans, in close partnership with the public schools, I was inspired by the rich cultural heritage preserved and passed on in neighborhood institutions, including the city schools. What has been done to the schools and neighborhoods in this city is nothing short of war-not only against the Black community but also against freedom and democracy. It is my fervent hope that in the tradition of David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, Raynard Sanders's meticulously researched and courageous eye-witness testimony, The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District, will also serve as a radicalizing wake-up call to those of us who cherish liberation and believe in defending human freedom. Let us all say with the people of New Orleans: `We won't bow down. We don't know how.' -Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University The struggle over the fate and future of public education has played out with notable intensity in New Orleans, Louisiana, never more significantly than in recent years as NOLA has become-post-Hurricane Katrina-the laboratory for a thoroughgoing corporate takeover of public education. In this compelling account the educator/activist/scholar Raynard Sanders documents the treacherous alliance that formed between old-school white supremacists and modern-day corporate raiders eager to get their grasping hands on what they perversely perceive as the `public education market.' The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public School District illustrates the case in compelling detail, and shows us precisely what's at stake: education as a basic human right versus schooling as a product for sale in the marketplace; democracy as a vital force for human development or the veritable erasure of the public; a step forward in the abiding and courageous press of Black parents for a full and decent education for their children as a pathway to authentic equality versus a further continuance of the shameful American tradition of apartheid schooling. This is a necessary book. -William Ayers, Author of several books on education including Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World, To Teach, and Teaching Toward Freedom

Raynard Sanders provides a vivid account of how the educational `Miracle in New Orleans' following Hurricane Katrina has created an educational marketplace that offers `choice' to the most advantaged students and a revolving door of failing schools to the least advantaged, while re-segregating the city even more starkly than before. Sanders meticulously outlines the equity and access issues that have emerged in a marketplace that provides only the illusion of school choice to many families who have witnessed the destruction of neighborhood schools that were once the hub of their communities. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools is critically important reading for those who care about the future of public education and the fight for equal rights in American society. -Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and President, Learning Policy Institute The struggle over the fate and future of public education has played out with notable intensity in New Orleans, Louisiana, never more significantly than in recent years as NOLA has become-post-Hurricane Katrina-the laboratory for a thoroughgoing corporate takeover of public education. In this compelling account the educator/activist/scholar Raynard Sanders documents the treacherous alliance that formed between old-school white supremacists and modern-day corporate raiders eager to get their grasping hands on what they perversely perceive as the `public education market.' The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools illustrates the case in compelling detail, and shows us precisely what's at stake: education as a basic human right versus schooling as a product for sale in the marketplace; democracy as a vital force for human development or the veritable erasure of the public; a step forward in the abiding and courageous press of Black parents for a full and decent education for their children as a pathway to authentic equality versus a further continuance of the shameful American tradition of apartheid schooling. This is a necessary book. -William Ayers, Author of several books on education including Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World, To Teach, and Teaching Toward Freedom Illegal. Fraudulent. Criminal. Unconstitutional. These words merely understate the dehumanizing abuses the families, children and educators in New Orleans are continuing to fight back against. When I lived there and worked at the University of New Orleans, in close partnership with the public schools, I was inspired by the rich cultural heritage preserved and passed on in neighborhood institutions, including the city schools. What has been done to the schools and neighborhoods in this city is nothing short of war-not only against the Black community but also against freedom and democracy. It is my fervent hope that in the tradition of David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, Raynard Sanders's meticulously researched and courageous eye-witness testimony, The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools, will also serve as a radicalizing wake-up call to those of us who cherish liberation and believe in defending human freedom. Let us all say with the people of New Orleans: `We won't bow down. We don't know how.' -Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University Raynard Sanders follows the trail of money to show how a group of white community-and-political leaders snatched control of the public schools from the citizens of New Orleans. They turned the schools over to profit-driven `reformers' who made it nearly impossible for parents to participate in any meaningful way in their children's schools, and they discarded a largely African American work force-eerily reminiscent of what happened in New Orleans following Reconstruction. Sanders peers behind the curtain of the `New Orleans Miracle,' and what he shows us is not pretty. -Al Kennedy, Historian and Author of Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans

Raynard Sanders follows the trail of money to show how a group of white community-and-political leaders snatched control of the public schools from the citizens of New Orleans. They turned the schools over to profit-driven `reformers' who made it nearly impossible for parents to participate in any meaningful way in their children's schools, and they discarded a largely African American work force-eerily reminiscent of what happened in New Orleans following Reconstruction. Sanders peers behind the curtain of the `New Orleans Miracle,' and what he shows us is not pretty. -Al Kennedy, Historian and Author of Chord Changes on the Chalkboard: How Public School Teachers Shaped Jazz and the Music of New Orleans Illegal. Fraudulent. Criminal. Unconstitutional. These words merely understate the dehumanizing abuses the families, children and educators in New Orleans are continuing to fight back against. When I lived there and worked at the University of New Orleans, in close partnership with the public schools, I was inspired by the rich cultural heritage preserved and passed on in neighborhood institutions, including the city schools. What has been done to the schools and neighborhoods in this city is nothing short of war-not only against the Black community but also against freedom and democracy. It is my fervent hope that in the tradition of David Walker's 1829 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, Raynard Sanders's meticulously researched and courageous eye-witness testimony, The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools, will also serve as a radicalizing wake-up call to those of us who cherish liberation and believe in defending human freedom. Let us all say with the people of New Orleans: `We won't bow down. We don't know how.' -Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University The struggle over the fate and future of public education has played out with notable intensity in New Orleans, Louisiana, never more significantly than in recent years as NOLA has become-post-Hurricane Katrina-the laboratory for a thoroughgoing corporate takeover of public education. In this compelling account the educator/activist/scholar Raynard Sanders documents the treacherous alliance that formed between old-school white supremacists and modern-day corporate raiders eager to get their grasping hands on what they perversely perceive as the `public education market.' The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools illustrates the case in compelling detail, and shows us precisely what's at stake: education as a basic human right versus schooling as a product for sale in the marketplace; democracy as a vital force for human development or the veritable erasure of the public; a step forward in the abiding and courageous press of Black parents for a full and decent education for their children as a pathway to authentic equality versus a further continuance of the shameful American tradition of apartheid schooling. This is a necessary book. -William Ayers, Author of several books on education including Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World, To Teach, and Teaching Toward Freedom Raynard Sanders provides a vivid account of how the educational `Miracle in New Orleans' following Hurricane Katrina has created an educational marketplace that offers `choice' to the most advantaged students and a revolving door of failing schools to the least advantaged, while re-segregating the city even more starkly than before. Sanders meticulously outlines the equity and access issues that have emerged in a marketplace that provides only the illusion of school choice to many families who have witnessed the destruction of neighborhood schools that were once the hub of their communities. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools is critically important reading for those who care about the future of public education and the fight for equal rights in American society. -Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and President, Learning Policy Institute

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Raynard Sanders has over forty years' experience in education in numerous capacities. Most recently he co-authored Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools: The Impact of Charters on Public Education. Dr. Sanders received his Bachelor of Arts from Dillard University, his Masters of Educational Administration from Southern University, and his Doctorate of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

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