Learning Curve: Quick Start School Construction Provides Guidance On Rebuilding Master Plan in N.O.

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As planners create a blueprint for the future of public education in New Orleans, questions have arisen about where to find $1.2 billion to build it. But education leaders say ongoing construction projects are helping streamline the process and point to an affordable school building strategy.

State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek introduced the Quick Start school construction initiative in late 2007 as a way to jumpstart the School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish Schools. While the plan to rebuild, restore or replace in the neighborhood of 80 public school buildings in the city has faced criticism for its lack of specifics, Pastorek said the five schools in the Quick Start program were designed to establish an early template for the $1.2 billion master plan.

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Learning Curve: Quick Start School Construction Provides Guidance On Rebuilding Master Plan in N.O.

Ground has already been broken at four of the five Quick Start schools: L.B. Landry High School, Lake Area Middle School and Langston Hughes and Andrew Wilson elementary schools. A funding dispute...

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