State takes over New Orleans.Hurricane Katrina was the flood that broke the New Orleans schools back and left most of the schools under state management. The state Department of Education has until June to devise a five-year plan Five-Year Plan, Soviet economic practice of planning to augment agricultural and industrial output by designated quotas for a limited period of usually five years. Nations other than the former USSR and the Soviet bloc members, especially developing countries, have adopted such plans for four, five, or more years. to manage 102 public schools starting in the 2006-07 school year, in addition to five schools that were already in the "Recovery School District" before Katrina hit last August. The schools in the recovery district have been failing, i.e., in terms of accountability scores, for four or more years. Three of the five schools that were already in the recovery district before Katrina hit were to have opened in January. "The hurricane exacerbated the problem," says Meg Casper Casper, city (1990 pop. 46,742), alt. 5,123 ft (1,561 m), seat of Natrona co., E central Wyo., on the North Platte River; inc. 1889. It is a rail, distribution, processing, and trade center in a farming, ranching, and mineral-rich area. An oil boomtown since the first well was tapped in 1890, it has many oil-affiliated industries. There is open-pit uranium mining nearby, and gas and coal production., education department spokeswoman. The state is meeting with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the Louisiana Recovery Authority, set up by Gov. Kathleen Blanco, and with the community to get input, Casper says. The education arm of the mayor's Bring New Orleans Back Commission reportedly envisions considerable control to principals, slimming down administration and offering parents choices between district and charter schools. It's unclear when schools reopen, but they will be run by outside organizations, nola Nola (nô`lä), town (1991 pop. 32,613), in Campania, S Italy. It is an agricultural center with food-processing industries. An Etruscan stronghold as early as 500 B.C., Nola flourished after passing (c.316 B.C.) to Rome and was an important center of early Christianity..com reports. A year ago, the New Orleans Parish School Board approved a $16 million contract to have a firm take over the board's finances, as the district reportedly had corrupt and wasteful record-keeping and that accounting for employees required a worker-by-worker audit, according to nola.com The New Orleans Parish School Board was to reopen two schools this school year and another 17 were to reopen in January, along with other charter schools reopening Reopening Treasury offerings of additional amounts of outstanding issues, rather than an entirely new issue. A reopened issue will always have the same maturity date, CUSIP number, and interest rate as the original issue..
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