FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 10/12/2006
Contact: Siona LaFrance, (504) 214-7994, Fax: (225) 342-0193
Communications Director, Recovery School District of New Orleans
DREW ELEMENTARY, REED MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS ARE GOING HOME
NEW ORLEANS, La.- Charles Drew Elementary School and Sarah T. Reed High School will return to their home campuses on Monday, October 16, 2006.
Drew will keep its 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. school schedule when it moves to its campus at 3819 St. Claude Avenue.
Drew started the school year at the Rosenwald Elementary campus because of delays in repairs to its Bywater building.
Reed, at 5316 Michoud Boulevard, will house both a middle school and a high school when students return to the campus. Students in grades 6-8 will attend from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and students in grades 9-12 will attend from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Since the start of school, Reed middle school students have attended classes at the Schwartz school campus on the West Bank, while students in grades 9-12 attended school on a platoon schedule at Rabouin High School in the Central Business District. The alternate sites were used because of delays in repairs to the Reed building.
Reed PK-5 , the last RSD school at an alternate location, will continue to operate this semester at 2521 Marais Street, a renovated school building on the grounds of First Pilgrims Baptist Church.
The state-run Recovery School District operates 17 of 53 public schools open in New Orleans this fall.
Another 17 schools are charter schools affiliated with the RSD.
For more information about the Recovery School District, call 1-877-453-2721 or go online at www.nolapublicschools.net.
