More on the Nelson School

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Medard H. Nelson Charter School is one of 23 charter schools in the New Orleans school district at this point, with many public schools having been in such disarray even before Katrina that they have been taken over by different charter groups. Only half the local schools have reopened. Nelson school was flooded out of their building across town and is temporarily in this older school building near the Garden District. The children's lives are consumed with Mardi Gras music, costumes, parades and festivities this week, and some of the classes had made minature parade floats from shoeboxes which they proudly carried outside to show us (see last photo). We were fed the local "King Cake" three different times yesterday (even at breakfast), and head into town for one of the dozens of parades today. -Anne