By Jessica Williams, The Lens staff writer
The Recovery School District announced today which charter operators next year will manage five schools that are now directly run by the district.
It also unveiled new career and technical programs to be instituted within the district’s high schools as early as next fall. The charter management groups overseeing the high schools will work with area businesses to develop these trade programs.
Charter school conversions for next year include:
- Walter L. Cohen, to be operated by New Orleans College Preparatory Academies, Inc.
- John McDonogh Senior High School, to be operated by The Future is Now
- Schwarz Academy, to be operated by Crescent Leadership Academy
- G. W. Carver High School, to be operated by Collegiate Academies
- Joesph Craig Elementary, to be operated by Friends of King, Inc.
