The Master Plan to proposes to tear down Bienville and construct a new larger facility to replace it in Phase 1. The structure is very solid and is tucked in a lovely Gentilly neighborhood with many successful renovations, including slab-on-grade homes.
New buildings are great, but are they the best use of our finite resources? [...]
In Gentilly near the Lakefront, Jean Gordon Elementary sits unsecured and scheduled for landbanking.
Hynes Elementary’s old building has been demolished and a new building is planned but has not yet begun construction.
Kennedy is not scheduled to re-open. Many people in the community ask me what is going to happen to Kennedy. Some former staffers say the school was built on a dump site and is contaminated or at least suspected to be contaminated. I think this would be an excellent site [...]
These pictures were taken in March 2007.
Nice view:
Why can’t we have a great neighborhood school?
Parsons was hired by the State of Louisiana Department of Education for the Recovery School District and Orleans Parish School Board to undertake a complete evaluation of our building stock and make recommendations based on their findings. Discrepencies found in master plan work here and major concerns about the company’s work in Iraq raise [...]
The Warren Easton auditorium was notably less than full.
This speaker I believe was Bob from Ohio who gave a presentation about how our schools have to be ’21st century learning environments’ because our kids will compete in the future with lowest-wage tech workers in Asia. I’m not kidding, this is what is planned for [...]
What a great experience! Expensive and time-consuming, yes, but highly educational. And there is no place better than District 3. I feel so fortunate to have met so many neighbors around the Fairgrounds, in Lakeview and Gentilly. I see the need all the more for human connections in education matters – we are still a [...]
