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  • Some see opportunity in loss of New Orleans schools

    09/14/2005 3:55:00 PM PDT · by WestTexasWend · 10 replies · 451+ views
    Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | Wed, Sep. 14, 2005 | Chris Gray
    NEW ORLEANS - Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, fallen tree branches, standing water and layers of muck still block vehicles from getting to Carter G. Woodson Middle School, a building near the Magnolia public housing complex that has long held the state title "academically unacceptable." The damage to Woodson and many of the 126 public school buildings in Orleans Parish doesn't bother school board member Jimmy Fahrenholtz, who is happy that the system's 65,000-plus students have been forced to find new schools in Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere. "A lot of them we never should have had...