Thirty-four schools Abrams, Alexander, Bienville, Bradley, Coghill, Gordon, Jordan, Little Woods, Osborne, Sherwood Forest, Arthur Ashe, Lafon, LaSalle, Fisk-Howard, Hoffman, Hynes, Morris F.X. Jeff, Terrell, Wheatley, Wilson, Edison, Edwards, Haley, Hardin, Lockett, Morial, Moton, Tubman, Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Shaw, Waters, Chester and Dunbar Elementary Schools - have all been slated for replacement.
Thirteen more schools Gregory and Priestly junior high schools, Lake Forest Montessori and Parkview magnets, Woodson, Phillips, Lake Area and Augustine middle schools, L.B. Landry, Schwartz Alternative, Abramson, G.W. Carver and Lawless high schools also face the wrecking ball if recommendations are finalized.
We have also found these School on the “complete replacement list” what ever that means
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Amy // Mar 15, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Dear Friends, Associates, and Fellow Concerned New Orleanians,
I have been speaking with many of you individually, hearing about and sharing city-wide concerns about the schools planning process and demolitions. It is time to come together. Please join us Tuesday night to discuss urgent city-wide education and demolition issues.
I will be sending out this invitation to different people and hope it will be forwarded by you as appropriate, so we hopefully will have in our attendance stakeholders such as neighborhood stewards, families, educators, bloggers, and architectural/ historic preservationists. I am planning for a one-and-a-half hour meeting, with the intrductions starting at 7 and information sharing/ specific issues conversations starting at 7:45, depending on attendance but not exceeding those times. The meeting will end at 8:30 with informal conversation time afterwards until the coffeeshop downstairs closes!
The location is upstairs at Fairgrinds Coffeehouse, 3133 Ponce de Leon, behind the old Whole Foods on Esplanade. Please contact me for further information or to volunteer to assist in organizing.
Thank you, and I hope to see you Tuesday night!
In prayer,
Amy Lafont
(504) 416-9766
Moton Elementary, New Orleans: Just another abandoned school on a toxic waste dump « Citizens’ City Hall // Mar 23, 2008 at 10:48 am
[…] Several months ago, the Recovery School District published a series of “snapshots” that indicated its assessment of each school it controls and indicates the District’s plans for the building. Unfortunately, many historic, structurally sound school have been slated for demolition or “complete replacement”. The distinction between demo and complete replacement is a little fuzzy, so in our continuing quest to understand what the RSD means by “complete replacement” we visited the Moton Elementary School in the Desire neighborhood today. The school itself appears to be a functional, structurally sound building, as you can see in the above video. […]
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