There has been an extraordinary amount of media coverage of the unfound success of the education reforms (charter schools) in New Orleans. The corporate reforms PR machine has also been successful at ignoring the traditional schools under the control of the locally elected school board. After Hurricane Katrina and the state takeover of more than 100 schools, Orleans Parish School Board was left with it best performing schools (many of which had admission requirements). These schools reopened as charters and traditional run schools. The traditional run schools with admission requirements lowered standards accepted all students. Ignored and unnoticed these traditional schools has emerged as one of the most highly rated school district in the state.
