ReNEW Schools is a charter school management organization in
, United States. Its headquarters are in the Batiste Cultural Arts Academy school facility, in the former Live Oak Elementary School in the
Irish Channel neighborhood. ReNEW is a charter management organization that specializes in acquiring low performing schools.
[Chang, Cindy.]
Katrina rewrites the book on education in New Orleans
" ''The Times-Picayune
''The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate'' is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, since January 25, 1837. The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of ''The Times-Picayune'' (itself a result of ...
''. 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."
Around 2009 Live Oak Elementary School was performing so poorly that
Paul Vallas, the head of the
Recovery School District
Recovery School District (RSD) is a special statewide school district administered by the Louisiana Department of Education. Created by legislation passed in 2003, the RSD is designed to take underperforming schools and transform and make them effe ...
(RSD), gave the school to the ReNEW.
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In 2019, the ReNEW staff announced to their staff via e-mail that they would be closing both McDonough City Park Academy and ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy. It is anticipated that Firstline Schools, a competing charter group, will be granted a charter for a school at the Cultural Arts Academy location. ]
Schools
* ReNEW SciTech Academy (former Laurel Elementary School) - Lower Garden District
Lower Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: St. Charles Avenue, Felicity, Prytania, Thalia, ...
* 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
Closed
* ReNEW Cultural Arts Academy (former Live Oak Elementary School) - Irish Channel (Closed in 2018)
* ReNEW Accelerated High School (former Agnes Baudit Elementary School) (Closed in 2019)
* McDonogh City Park Academy - Mid-City (Closed in 2018)
* ReNEW Early Childhood Center at McNair Formerly KiPP Believe! (Closed in 2019)
References
External links
ReNEW Schools
Education in New Orleans
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