Unification plan for New Orleans public schools leaves officials with lots of decisions to make, deadlines to meet
September 1, 2016
The Orleans Parish School Board signed off this week on a step-by-step plan to reclaim the schools it lost to the state after Hurricane Katrina, a document aimed at ensuring a seamless transition to local control.
But the myriad decisions that still have to be made — and the deadlines that must be met — mean local and state school officials will be working overtime to merge the two systems by 2019 at the latest.