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  2. Orleans Parish School Board - Wikipedia

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    Orleans Parish School Board. / 29.928789; -90.020757  ( District office) The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), branded as NOLA Public Schools, governs the public school system that serves New Orleans, Louisiana. It includes the entirety of Orleans Parish, coterminous with New Orleans.

  3. Leslie Jacobs - Wikipedia

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    Leslie Rosenthal Jacobs (born 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an education reform advocate, business executive, and philanthropist.Born in New Orleans and a graduate of Cornell University, she built her family's small, independent insurance agency into one of the largest in the South, before merging the Rosenthal Agency with Hibernia National Bank (now Capital One).

  4. NAACP New Orleans Branch - Wikipedia

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    New Orleans, Louisiana. TEL: 504-822-8512. FAX: 504-821-3131. President. Atty. Danatus N. King Sr. Website. neworleansnaacp.org. The New Orleans Branch is the oldest continuously active branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [1] south of Washington D.C. It was formally chartered on July 15, 1915.

  5. St. Augustine High School (New Orleans) - Wikipedia

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    St. Augustine High School (New Orleans) /  29.98361°N 90.06833°W  / 29.98361; -90.06833. St. Augustine High School (also known as " St. Aug") is a private, Catholic, all-boys high school run by the Josephites in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was founded in 1951 and includes grades 8 through 12.

  6. New Orleans school desegregation crisis - Wikipedia

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    The New Orleans school desegregation crisis was the period of intense public resistance in New Orleans that followed the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. The conflict peaked in 1960, when U.S. Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered that desegregation in ...

  7. Brother Martin High School - Wikipedia

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    Loved be the heart of Mary! Brother Martin High School is a private, Catholic, all-boys college preparatory school run by the United States Province of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was established by the brothers in 1869 as St. Aloysius College. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans .

  8. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts - Wikipedia

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    Website. nocca .com. New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, or NOCCA, is the regional, pre-professional arts training center for high school students in Louisiana. NOCCA opened in 1973 as a professional arts training center for secondary school -age children. Located in New Orleans, it provides intensive instruction in culinary arts, creative ...

  9. Rapides School Board considers options for $2.4 million ...

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    The school on Texas Avenue is one of six that might have to modify its plans to include a tornado shelter. Faced with a windfall of about $2.4 million from sales of its District 62 bonds, members ...