There's a lot going on there and E invites you to add your own perspective/criticisms on the plan if you have any.
This bit stood out in my mind
Rather (than) embracing the urbanity of our community, the acreage requirements that inform the closure of many schools located in dense neighborhoods impose an arbitrary suburban-style benchmark that actually has no real correlation with academic performance. This design preference of Concordia-Parsons forces the school district to waste precious time and money negotiating land acquisitions and swap transactions when there are buildings open right now that could be renovated at prices cheaper than building new. Further, the suburbanized campus vision and the neighborhood school closures that the policy necessitates flies in the face of national trends predicting a re-migration to cities and the best academic research on long term environmental benefits of 're-densification' of urban cores spread thin during white flight's asphalt boom.
Local contractor Concordia and Iraq War profiteer Parsons have been paid well to develop this behind-the-times demolition plan. Another example of your free market recovery at work.
Update:
Hearing in 7th Ward on master plan for New Orleans public schools
by The Times-Picayune
Tuesday September 23, 2008, 6:00 AM
A public hearing on a $1.8 billion New Orleans public school facilities master plan will be held today at 6 p.m. at A.P. Tureaud Elementary School, 2021 Pauger St.
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