And Slate is hosting an awesome space for dialogue and contest about reinventing education. spaces.School buildings must be part of nation's conversation about education. Quality education requires quality spaces, something that millions of students lack.
We know that millions of children, especially those living in low-wealth school districts, spend their school days in poor quality, unhealthy, and overcrowded buildings that cause health problems and limit educational opportunities. All students and teachers have the right to adequate, appropriate learning conditions that will allow them to strive for and achieve the goals being set for them. No single level of government can accomplish this alone. We must create a new federal, state, and local partnership to ensure that each and every single community has sufficient resources to provide high-quality school buildings to their students.
Hurricane Katrina brought a wave of young, new teachers to New Orleans
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After Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans 20 years ago, its school system
started over. Many of the city's veteran educators were replaced with young
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