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James-Gallaway, Chaddrick D. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: In New Orleans, Louisiana, in the years following Hurricane Katrina, predominantly white education reformers have used entrepreneurial support to dismantle the predominantly Black city's public education system. Using racial domination without community approval, these education reformers have educationally disenfranchised the…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Teachers, Charter Schools, Critical Race Theory
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Jaimie Stickl Haugen; Claudia C. Sutter; Jessica L. Tinstman Jones; Laurie O. Campbell – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2020
Although all states in the United States require school districts to adopt anti-bullying policies, relatively little research explores the content of bullying policies. A content analysis of anti-bullying policies from 76 school districts across the State of Louisiana was conducted. A 63-item coding scheme was developed to guide the analysis. The…
Descriptors: Bullying, Discipline Policy, School Districts, School Policy
Zubrzycki, Jaclyn; Cavanagh, Sean; McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2013
As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy--the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards--has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public schools. Research on the issue…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Discipline, Discipline Policy
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Jeffers, Elizabeth K. – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
This article focuses on special education in New Orleans post Hurricane Katrina. After Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana's Recovery School District (RSD) took over 102 of the city's 128 schools with the stated goal of creating a "choice district" for parents. This "choice distric"' is made up of RSD direct-run schools, Orleans…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Disabilities, Special Education
Avellar-Fleming, Cyda – Executive Educator, 1994
Schools need clear, consistent, and equitable disciplinary practices. A Louisiana parochial school developed an effective discipline policy by assembling faculty and staff into natural work teams, appointing team leaders, having each group list and classify troublesome disciplinary problems, studying the school mission statement, developing…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Elementary Education, Parochial Schools, Policy Formation
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Tuzzolo, Ellen; Hewitt, Damon T. – High School Journal, 2007
After a state take-over of most local schools, the fate of public education in New Orleans has been clouded by uncertainty. However, many problems are already clear. The community has expressed outrage on numerous occasions about the management, conditions, policies, and practices of the RSD schools. One fundamental concern has been about the lack…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Textbooks, Resource Allocation, Educational Quality