Starting Over (Again) in New Orleans

Caitlin Corrigan:

Aug. 29, 2008, marked the end of the second week of my second year teaching at Craig Elementary school, one of nearly 35 public schools that make up the Recovery School District, a state run system created in 2005 to reform New Orleans' failing schools.

The date had a much greater significance for my students and our city, of course -- it was both the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall, and the day before Mayor C. Ray Nagin would declare a mandatory evacuation in preparation for what could be "the storm of the century," Hurricane Gustav.

As we neared dismissal that day, my students buzzed around the wooden shelves that housed their binders of classwork.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 4, 2008 2:44 AM
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