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ExCEED withdraws applications to charter remaining traditional schools in New Orleans

ExCEED Network Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and district staff, has withdrawn its application to convert New Orleans’ last five traditional schools to charters.

New Orleans could have become the first city in the U.S. where the elected school board doesn’t directly run any public schools. With ExCEED’s withdrawal and the recommendation to close Mahalia Jackson Elementary School, that won’t happen this year.

Orleans schools Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. made the announcement in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, an hour after the School Board’s agenda for its Thursday meeting was published with no mention of the charter applications.

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