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For more on education, watch our documentary 'Last Chance High'There's some evidence much of the improvements New Orleans schools saw came from simply getting rid of students who were academically underperforming. In 2010, the Recovery School District was found to be using expulsions ten times as much as the national average; these schools also disciplined African American and poor students at much higher rates than white students. As noted in a New York Times op-ed from 2015, it's not clear how many kids have dropped out of these schools, but 26,000 16- to 24-year-olds in the New Orleans area were considered "disconnected" at the time, meaning they aren't working or in school.
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"We have a generation of students that were used as an experiment. And what do we have to show for it?"
—Karran Harper Royal
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