id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt RefID-779-kennedy2021william Kennedy,Al William Frantz Public School: A Story of Race, Resistance, Resiliency, and Recovery in New Orleans New York: Peter Lang, 2020. 302 pp 2021 .txt text/plain 147 5 36 Orleans Parish School Board officials, along with Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services, their hired guns, were complicit in the takeover by summarily firing forty-three hundred veteran teachers, costing New Orleans an average fifteen years of teaching experience per person. In 1961, a plumber without classroom or administrative educational experience was given “complete authority to act on all school matters” (p. 66) in the Ninth Ward Cooperative School, an all-White alternative to integrated public schools in New Orleans. cache/RefID-779-kennedy2021william.txt txt/RefID-779-kennedy2021william.txt