Katrina Tests Private Fixer of New Orleans Public Schools.

Autor: Tomsho, Robert
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Zdroj: Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 9/28/2005, Vol. 246 Issue 64, pB1-B4. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.
Abstrakt: Focuses on restructuring the New Orleans, Louisiana school system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Nature of challenges faced by Bill Roberti, a managing director of the turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal, who is in charge of restructuring the city's school system plagued by corruption and disarray; Indications that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush wants to make charter schools and private-school vouchers part of the restructuring; Percentage of the city's public schools that were deemed "academically unacceptable" by the state; Financial crisis faced by the school system as a result of Katrina.
Databáze: Regional Business News