Principal, Janice A. Dupuy
Broadway Campus: 428 Broadway, New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: 504-862-5135, Fax: 504-866-1691
Carrollton Campus: 719 S. Carrollton Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: 504-324-7110

www.auduboncharter.com

At Audubon, we are a truly unique, highly rated public school comprised of a Montessori school recognized by the American Montessori Society as an initiated member. We are the only French-immersion public elementary school in Louisiana which is accredited by the French government. We became a charter school after Katrina, but our leadership in the local charter movement has prompted Louisiana legislators to invite us to Baton Rouge to teach them more about this movement. We are proud to have high academic standards, a comprehensive arts education, and a charter school where we celebrate the diversity of all children.

Principal/CEO, Dr. Timothy G. Rusnak
2001 Leon C. Simon Dr., New Orleans, LA 70122
Phone: 504-286-2600

We were chartered after Katrina with the University of New Orleans to give young people of high intellectual promise an opportunity to reach their maximum potential as scholars and productive, creative citizens of a technology-rich global community. We were named a Blue Ribbon School twice by the U.S. Department of Education. The class of 2008 produced 17 National Achievement semifinalists, the most of any U.S. school.

Principal, Shawn Toranto
5100 Cannes St., New Orleans, LA 70129
Phone: 504-324-7450

Einstein Charter School integrates mathematics and science in interdisciplinary curricula to promote the ideals and habits of lifelong learning among all stakeholders. Serving a wide variety of students, with majority representations of both Asian and African American students, Einstein is a uniquely diverse open admissions charter school with the largest English-as-second-language population in the city. There are special needs and gifted program tracks for students. Our partnership with Dillard and Southern Universities, and the New Orleans Museum of Art “Art Therapy” program ensures an academically sound curriculum as colorfully diverse as our student body.

Principal, Michelle Douglas
3774 Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70122
Phone: 504-324-7160

www.hynesschool.org

We returned to New Orleans after Katrina with no building, no students, no books. In January 2006, we partnered with the University of New Orleans to bring back public education to New Orleans Lakefront neighborhoods. Thanks to UNO’s pre-Katrina experience with charters, they helped us through the hard months, things too emotional to rehash or express in words. For months last year, 18 wheelers pulled up to restock our school. Our staff, who experienced their own losses, nevertheless remained dedicated because they believed so strongly in the mission of Hynes. We are part of New Orleans’ rebuilding. We’ve moved twice since we’ve opened, but we have over 1100 applications for next school year! I think that speaks volumes for our success. Edward Hynes Elementary promotes lifelong learning with the cooperation of families and the community. Through this cooperative effort, a positive learning environment is created to develop proficient readers, writers, problem solvers, and creative thinkers.

Head of School/Executive Director, Sean Wilson
1400 Camp St., New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504-654-1088

www.isl-edu.org

Opened before Katrina in 2000, the International School of Louisiana provides a challenging education emphasizing French or Spanish language immersion, international awareness, the celebration of diversity and community responsibility. With the campus flooded after the 2005 storm, the school reopened in a temporary facility in neighboring Jefferson Parish. ISL became the first Orleans Parish-based public school to resume operation after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina – welcoming 142 students back through the determination of ISL’s families, administrators and faculty. In 2006, the Louisiana Board of Education granted ISL the lease on a vacant Orleans Parish public school building and returned to Orleans Parish with 329 students in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans and a new KaBOOM! Playground for its students and neighbors.

Principal/CEO, Mardele S. Early
12000 Hayne Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70128
Phone: 504-826-7140, Fax: 504-248-7020

lakeforestelementarycharter.com

Lake Forest Charter School provides a nurturing environment in east New Orleans, which facilitates maximum student achievement through a rigorous, accelerated academic program incorporating visual, cultural and creative arts, which enhances each student’s ability to become a global, contributing citizen. Weeks after Katrina, Principal Early and a group of seven educators from Lake Forest Montessori began working on a charter application, which was unanimously approved in January, 2006. This group of women continued tirelessly preparing to open a school in New Orleans East, while trying to rebuild their own personal lives. In April, Lake Forest Charter Elementary opened its doors for 11 staff members to serve 66 children in grades K – 6, the first public school to re-open in the New Orleans East community. By August of 2007, 416 students were enrolled in Pre-K through gifted 8. Lake Forest boasts high parental involvement and outstanding student achievement. Representatives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government which endured the 2000 eruption of the Miyakejima volcano visited Principal Early and the school to learn how she and other staff members were able to rebuild a successful, high achieving school, while rebuilding their personal lives. From our librarian who successfully gained $100,000 to build the library from the ground up, to a group of teachers who formed a partnership with the Make A Wish Foundation, we have embraced our struggle rebuild through community service and exceptional deeds. We are the Eagles!

CEO, Kathy Riedlinger (For Over 25 Years!)
High School Principal Wiley Ates
Middle School Principal Brenda Bourne
Elementary School Principal Sheila Nelson
7315 Willow St., New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone 504-862-5110, Fax 504-309-4171
5624 Freret St., New Orleans, LA
Phone 504-304-3960, Fax 504-861-1839

www.lusherschool.org

Lusher Charter School provides a developmentally appropriate learning environment in which high academics, comprehensive arts education, and the celebration of individuality and diversity enable each student to achieve as a learner, person and valuable member of our society. Our K-12 school operates today on two separate campuses in Uptown New Orleans in a partnership with Tulane University. Hurricane Katrina found us submitting a charter proposal to Orleans Parish School Board on the Saturday before the storm! We became the first charter granted after Katrina and opened in January, 2006. This allowed Lusher to play a leading role in assisting other schools seeking to charter and in generally advocating early for charter-friendly state and district policies.

Principal, Paulette P. Bruno
6800 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126
(504) 245-4400

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Moton Elementary is an open-enrollment charter school, held accountable to rigorous performance standards and led by innovative, results-driven educators. Moton provides high-quality, data-driven instruction to all New Orleans children, regardless of neighborhood, race or class. The school’s 200 children are still looking for permanent housing. The chartering organization is Advocates for Innovative Schools Inc.

Interim School Director, Alnita Porea
5625 Loyola Ave., New Orleans, LA 70115
Phone 504-324-7061

www.noscihigh.com

The New Orleans Charter Science & Mathematics High School or “Sci High” is remarkable for its open-admissions policy and its success with an extremely at-risk and under-served population. Sci High provides open-access to high quality education for under-represented groups: Of our 370 students, 86 percent are African American, 80 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch, and 57 percent are female, an unusually high number for a science and math school. We were a pioneering charter school in the days after Katrina, following in the tradition of a half day non-charter school that operated for 13 years prior to the storm. Today, we continue to provide all interested students with a high quality laboratory-based education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. We succeed in teaching. Last year, only 14 percent of entering freshman read at grade level. The school implemented a phonics-based reading program and increased that number to 66 percent! That’s why we’ve been granted the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation’s Claes Nobel School of Distinction Award. We have an “innovative approach to integrating science and math and reaching out through open admissions to students who may not otherwise have an opportunity to attend such a school.”

Principal, Alexina Medley
3019 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70119
Phone 504-324-7400

www.warreneastonseniorhigh.org

Warren Easton Senior High School opened nearly a year after Katrina as a charter school on September 7, 2006 with 792 students.  As an inner-city school, Easton is dedicated  to educating the children of the working class families of New Orleans. Our students came home from more than 40 states and nine foreign countries, where they relocated after 
Hurricane Katrina.  Easton remains committed to those children and their families. Faced with the possibility that the oldest public high school in New Orleans and a Louisiana  landmark would not be reopened by the local school board, the Warren Easton Charter Foundation was organized. Citizens stepped up to provide hundreds of hours in manpower 
to clean, scrape and paint the school classrooms. Scheduled to open in August 2006, the date had to be pushed back three weeks as electrical work had not been completed.  Only the second and third floors could be used for class and the cafeteria was unable to provide hot food. First floor classroom renovations were completed in Spring 2007, yet 
Easton still struggles to have unfinished projects completed. Our motto is “We Believe in Success”. Our school provides our students with confidence and stability - qualities  lacking since Hurricane Katrina, but essential to their development as successful, self-reliant future citizens of New Orleans.