The Editor’s Notes

As we near the anniversary of Katrina, EducationNext has three articles about the schools in New Orleans:

Good News for New Orleans

The New Orleans OneApp

Many Options in New Orleans Choice System

• Pluto Photos Create New Avenues for Space Lessons

  Education Week | July 30, 2015

• International Baccalaureate Saw Rapid Growth in High-Poverty Schools

  Education Week | August 31, 2015

• What’s going on with all the missing high school graduation rate data?

  The Hechinger Report | August 4, 2015

• Chris Christie to teachers union: You deserve a punch in the face

  The Washington Post | August 3, 2015

• Obama wants to pay for prisoners' college education — and it could save taxpayers money

  Vox | August 3, 2015

• The Citizen Preschooler

  The Atlantic | August 3, 2015

• Why is America Throwing Poor Mothers in Prison for “Stealing” a Public Education?

  The 74 Million | August 3, 2015

• School board money is small compared to Charlotte mayor’s race

  The Charlotte Observer | August 4, 2015

• Pender schools owed $94,000 for child nutrition charges

  Wilmington Star-News | August 3, 2015

• School board to align policy with new 10-grading scale mandate

  Durham Herald-Sun | August 3, 2015

• Program helps Cumberland County teachers who buy local

  WRAL | August 3, 2015

• ‘Chat and Chew’ focuses on improving children’s health

  Wilkes Journal-Patriot | July 31, 2015

• Report: NC Kids with Medicaid Become Healthy, Productive Adults

  Public News Service | July 28, 2015

• 562: The Problem We All Live With

  This American Life | July 31, 2015

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