Books:
Public Schools, Private Governance: Education Reform and Democracy in New Orleans
J. Celeste Lay, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, 2022
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, 2020
(Available at the EBR Public Library!)
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Diane Ravitch, 2014
(Available at the EBR Public Library!)
Videos:
Why Louisiana Stays Poor
Together Louisiana, 2018
Why Louisiana Stays Poor, Part 2: The Poorest Town in America
Together Louisiana, 2019
How Black High School Students Are Hurt by Modern-Day Segregation
Now This News, 2019
Separate and Unequal
PBS Frontline, 2014, Transcript
Articles:
The New Secession
Adam Harris for The Atlantic, 2019
Smaller communities are "seceding" from larger school districts. It's accelerating school segregation.
P. R. Lockhart for Vox, 2019
What Are Community Schools?
The National Education Association
Podcasts:
Have You Heard?
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire
Nice White Parents
The New York Times, Serial
Websites:
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Humanities Amped
Destiny Cooper and Anna West began Humanities Amped in 2014 with one class of 25 students. Today, we are in residence at Tara High School, a public school that is part of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, serving students, educators, and community members. Our vision is to build an innovative and dynamic community of lifelong learners and civic leaders, and it is our mission to empower public school communities and youth organizations to cultivate healing justice, radical imagination, and beloved community.
Louisiana Budget Project
The Louisiana Budget Project (LBP) monitors and reports on public policy and how it affects Louisiana’s low- to moderate-income families. We believe that the lives of Louisianans can be improved through profound change in public policy, brought about by creating a deeper understanding of the state budget and budget-related issues, looking at the big picture of how the budget impacts citizens, encouraging citizens to be vocal about budget issues that are important to them, and providing insight and leadership to drive the policy debate.
Serve Louisiana
Serve Louisiana was formed in 1991 as Louisiana Delta Service Corps, part of a three-state program formed to tackle social issues facing communities in the Lower Mississippi River Delta region. Today, nearly three decades later, Serve Louisiana members help nonprofits, public schools, grassroots efforts and community initiatives in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Each year, up to 37 members serve full-time, 11-month terms as Volunteer Coordinators, Technology & Social Media Coordinators, Program Outreach & Community Awareness Coordinators, and Program Development Coordinators. It’s a big commitment — but one that consistently helps our partner organizations build greater capacity to serve their community stakeholders. And when our partners are able to do more, everyone wins. We’re Louisiana’s longest-running AmeriCorps program, a national effort started in 1994 to engage young adults in public service work that helps others and meets critical community needs. Since the program began, more than a million members have contributed more than 1.4 billion service hours across America, tackling pressing problems and mobilizing more than 2.3 million volunteers for the organizations they serve.