Oh no where did all our teachers go?

We used to have thousands of experienced, home grown, professional unionized teachers here in New Orleans. And now we need to spend $7 million recruiting to fill a shortage. What happened?

However, following Hurricane Katrina, the city's school system morphed into a decentralized system of scores of largely autonomous charter schools, overseen partly by the Orleans Parish School Board and partly by the state-run Recovery School District. Over time, all schools were converted to charters, and the local school district regained oversight over all schools only last year.

Meanwhile, teacher hiring became trickier, as the 38 separate nonprofit organizations that operate the city's charter schools gained control over hiring, without the benefit of a single, centralized office to provide talent.

LOL the system spontaneously "morphed." I hate when that happens.