Clean Slate: Making Sense of Public Education in the "NEW" New Orleans
Open Access
- Author:
- Torregano, Michelle Early
- Graduate Program:
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Degree:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Document Type:
- Dissertation
- Date of Defense:
- July 22, 2010
- Committee Members:
- Patrick Willard Shannon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Willard Shannon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Member
Scott Mc Donald, Committee Member
Emilie Smith, Committee Member - Keywords:
- social equity
school reform
public education
race
Rebuilding and Transforming
privatization
politics
Bring New Orleans Back Education committee
charter schools
critical policy analysis
discourse
educational equity
greenfield
history of public education in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
interviewing
National Coalition for Quality Education in New Or
natural disaster
neoliberalism
teacher unions
United Teachers of New Orleans - Abstract:
- Hurricane Katrina has been called the worst natural disaster in the United States. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region suffered tremendous loss. Levees in New Orleans breached in three places and caused 80% of the city to become engulfed with flood waters. As a result of the flooding, homes, businesses and schools were destroyed. The New Orleans public school system was no longer in existence. Through the use of critical policy analysis this study examined Rebuilding and Transforming: A Plan for Improving Public Education produced by the Bring New Orleans Back Education Committee to determine the animating discourses that guided the process for brokering consensus regarding the future of public education in New Orleans. Moreover, three responses to Rebuilding and Transforming were analyzed using critical policy analysis to determine the values and discourses embedded within each document and compare them to the discourse in the BNOB committee's final plan "Rebuilding and Transforming" and the history of New Orleans public schools. Findings revealed neoliberal values directed the process and outcome of reopening New Orleans public schools.