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When we began our work on the New Orleans public schools nearly twenty years ago (Mirón & Lauria, 1998; Lauria & Mirón, 2005), it never occurred to us – nor was it a discourse in the public imagination – that we would witness such radical transformation of pubic education in the city. It was literally unthinkable. Moreover as one of us had argued earlier (Mirón, 1992/2010), the near repugnant attitude of dominant political and social elites toward the public sector (city and state government) preempted the implementation of reform-minded public policies, especially when it came to the reallocation of funding that diminished the power of elected leaders such as members of the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB).
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Mirón, L., Lauria, M. (2015). Up To Higher Ground. In: Mirón, L., Beabout, B.R., Boselovic, J.L. (eds) Only in New Orleans. Educational Futures, vol 63. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-100-7_1
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