2015 - News & Archives

Katrina 10

Education

• Katrina 10 | Resilent New Orleans- website celebrating New Orleans' progress and creating a vision for its future »
• K10: Civic Engagement - Video »
• 10 Years Post-Katrina, New Orleans is Back to, Well, Anything But Normal »
• At State of the City, Mayor Landrieu Announces Plans for Katrina 10th Anniversary Commemoration - 'K10-Resilient New Orleans' Will Be Months Long Commemoration
• New Orleans Citizens Reform a Corrupt, Fallen City
• 'Ladies in red' back in Capitol to fight for independent levee boards »
• Women Making Waves leadership conference »

• How New Orleans Made Charter Schools Work 
  June/July/August 2015
• Don't miss your chance to chime in on Common Core standards: Editorial 
  7/22/15
• Times-Picayune - School Board isn't ready for mass return of New Orleans schools: Editorial 
  5/17/15
• Our Views: Making charters return once-failing schools to school boards is a forced marriage that legislators shouldn't pursue 
  5/14/15
• Education Committee should stand up for Common Core 
  5/13/15
• Hear the truth about higher standards from teachers - Video 
  ​5/2015
• Congratulations to Kira Orange Jones who was named one of TIME 100 most influential people in the world 2015. 

Levees

• ​For this city, it's a new day 10 years after Katrina: Rep. Steve Scalise » 
  August 29, 2015
• Citizen activism is key to New Orleans' revival and future: Ruthie Frierson »
• ​Post-Katrina reforms make levee, flood wall inspections a daily job
  August 6, 2015
• Is New Orleans safe?
  Aug. 1, 2015
• Watching the levees
  July 6, 2015

General

• Citizen activism is key to New Orleans' revival and future: Ruthie Frierson (Times-Picayune) 
  ​August 2015
• Heroes of the Recovery (New Orleans Magazine)
  August 16, 2015