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    Louisiana Supreme Court Lays Post-Katrina Teacher Layoff Myths To Rest Ruling Sets The Record Straight On One Of The Most Controversial Events To Emerge From The Disaster

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    On Halloween, the Louisiana Supreme Court dismissed a class-action lawsuit arising from the layoffs of over 7,600 New Orleans school employees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The 5-2 decision represented a “stunning, wholesale reversal” for the plaintiffs, who prevailed both at trial and before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal; those rulings had found […] More

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    Fact-Checking UFT’s Attack on NOLA Schools

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    I recently came upon an article attacking New Orleans’ public schools in New York Teacher, the official magazine of the United Federation of Teachers, which represents over 200,000 educators in New York City’s public school system. The piece, written by Micah Landau, a “staff reporter” for the union (“staff reporter” apparently being UFT newspeak for […] More