ReNEW Schools
ReNEW Schools is a charter school management organization in New Orleans, United States. Its headquarters are in the Batiste Cultural Arts Academy school facility,[1][2] in the former Live Oak Elementary School in the Irish Channel neighborhood.[3] ReNEW is a charter management organization that specializes in acquiring low performing schools.[4]
Around 2009 Live Oak Elementary School was performing so poorly that Paul Vallas, the head of the Recovery School District (RSD), gave the school to the ReNEW.[4]
Schools
- ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy (former Live Oak Elementary School) - Irish Channel
- ReNEW SciTech Academy (former Laurel Elementary School) - Lower Garden District
- Schaumburg Elementary School (beginning in the 2013-2014 school year) - East New Orleans
- Dolores T. Aaron Academy (formerly Reed/Little Woods Elementary)- East New Orleans
- ReNEW Accelerated High School (former Agnes Baudit Elementary School)
- McDonogh City Park Academy - Mid-City
- ReNEW Early Childhood Center at McNair Formerly KiPP Believe!
References
- ↑ "Home." ReNEW Schools. Retrieved on April 1, 2013. "3128 Constance Street New Orleans, LA 70115"
- ↑ "Contact Us." ReNEW Schools. Retrieved on April 1, 2013. "Batiste Cultural Arts Academy 3128 Constance Street New Orleans, LA 70115"
- ↑ Vanacore, Andrew. "Batiste Academy in Irish Channel chosen for federal arts program." The Times-Picayune. April 23, 2012. Retrieved on March 30, 2013. "Batiste Cultural Arts Academy, a K-8 charter school of more than 600 students in the Irish Channel neighborhood,[...]" and "Batiste, located on the site of the old Live Oak Elementary, is in the second year of a turnaround effort led by the charter management organization ReNew."
- 1 2 Chang, Cindy. "Katrina rewrites the book on education in New Orleans." The Times-Picayune. Thursday August 26, 2010. Updated Monday May 28, 2012. Retrieved on April 1, 2013. "Last year, the Batiste building on Constance Street in the Garden District was occupied by Live Oak Elementary."
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