Happy Thanksgiving to All!

As promised, here is our recap from last weeks meeting...

Nolan Marshall, our fabulous speaker from the Cowen Institute for Public Education, gave an engaging and informative presentation about the state of public education in New Orleans.  Some of the topics we covered were the voucher program, parent triggers, the "financial backpack" and complications associated with school choice.  Each of these issues are complex and multifaceted; as the year progresses we hope to delve deeper into the new programs that resulted from the last legislative session and how they will actually effect students in New Orleans.

For those of you who missed it, not to worry!  We are working on scheduling Nolan again for a time in the spring semester as we monitor the development of the issues we discussed last week.

Our next meeting will be in one week, Thursday, November 29th at 6:30pm in Classroom 3 of Hillel.

Amy Holiday, one of our founding members of the Tulane chapter will be here for a discussion.  Pizza will be provided!

Also, for those of you who are unfamiliar with Hillel, it is located at 912 Broadway (the intersection of Broadway and Burthe street), and the classrooms are on the second floor of the building.  If anybody is unsure or wants to walk over together, meet in front of Dixon hall at 6:15pm.

Hope y'all have a wonderful turkey day and weekend!