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A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina by Christien Philmarc Tompkins is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public school board fired nearly 7,500 teachers and employees. In the decade that followed, the city created the first urban public school system in the United States to be entirely contracted out to private management. Veteran educators, collectively referred to as the "back
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- Author
- Christien Philmarc Tompkins
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520400948
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Philosophy Of Education, Education
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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