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Lagniappe Academies Families Fight To Keep School Open

Mallory Falk
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Last week the state school board voted to close Lagniappe Academies after a report outlined special education violations at the Tremé charter school. On Monday night, families held a rally to fight that decision.

Harold Bailey Sr. was one of three parents and grandparents to speak out against the school closure. He says the state should get rid of the administrators but keep the school open.

"This isn't choice," he said. "We don't want this. And this is not what children need. They need stability."

Parent Anthony Parker expressed similar feelings.

"Where is that fair to our children, where we have to sit down and explain to them they won't see the same friends anymore?" he asked. "They won't see the same teachers anymore."

Parker, Bailey and several others plan to create a Parents' Bill of Rights and bring it to the legislature.

Down the the street at the Sojourner Truth Community Center, Recovery School District officials met with families and helped them fill out applications to new schools.

Rollin Black scanned the options for his son. He says in the charter school landscape, you just have to expect that schools might close.

"You always have to be prepared for the worst and I can only just try to find something else for him," he says.

Black says his son will have attended three schools in three years. He hopes the next one works out.

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