Dismantling a Community, a new publication from the Center, chronicles the selling-off of New Orleans Schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Rather than build the first-class public education system that New Orleans kids have deserved for decades, Federal Government officials and right-wing advocates used this tragedy as fertile ground for social experimentation on a grand scale.

Thousands of seasoned teachers have been let go and teacher's unions have been decimated while some $40 million has been spent to turn the New Orleans education system into a complex web of individually operated schools where parents have to vie for a quality education for their children.

Dismantling a Community tells the consequences of the ongoing assault that privatization advocates have unleashed on the fragile neighborhoods of New Orleans.

You Click download the report via the following url:<br>

http://communitychange.org/issues/education/publications/downloads/DismantlingFULL.pdf

Dismantling a Community is available in hard copy for $5 --To order your hard copy online through our friends at Teaching for Change, visit their website: <br>

http://teachingforchange.org/publications/publications.html <br>

--To order your hard copy by check payable to the Center for Community Change, send your request to:

Center for Community Change attention Leigh Dingerson 1536 U Street, NW Washington, DC 20009

--To inquire about bulk orders, contact Leigh at ldingerson@communitychange.org or call (202) 339-9349.