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When it comes to New Orleans schools, who is making the choices?

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imageWho has benefitted from New Orleans school reforms?Bart Everson, CC BY

In 1948, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, “the public school is at once a symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny.”

But these days, with public education becoming more about test...

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