WTUL News Interviews Dr Reynard Sanders on A Perfect Storm and Jessica of Patois Film Fest

by WTUL News (wtulnews [at] gmail.com)

Fri, Mar 13, 2015 10:47AM

As Part of Patois film fest, we interviewed Dr Sanders, a co-producer of "A Perfect Storm," a film project collected from primary documents and personal interviews conducted in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, when New Orleans municipal schools were being seized by the state of Louisiana and the charter school movement.

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A Perfect Storm shows this weekend, Sunday at 4pm, with another film, "School's Out" on school privatization and loss of local control of schools in Baltimore--all part of Patois Film Fest, going on this weekend and next at Tulane campus and at the Zeitgeist theatre.

Dr Sanders has a radio show on WBOK, and is a long-time educator in the city of New Orleans.
theneworleansimperative.org

http://patoisfilmfest.org/sessions/a-perfect-storm-just-cities/

For more information: http://patoisfilmfest.org

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§Sanders is part of the problem

by Peter Cook

Sat, Mar 14, 2015 8:20PM

The one part you won't hear about Raynard Sanders is that he ran one of the worst schools in the city of New Orleans - John McDonogh Senior High School. He left his job the year before Louisiana's accountability system went into effect, which showed that the school he ran was one of the lowest-performing schools in the entire state. This was a school that could barely graduate half of its students and was in a sorry state of disrepair. Now, he wants to claim that the takeover of schools was unjust - even though he was part of a system which marginalized thousands of poor African-American students year after year after year. Just something to keep in mind when you hear his BS story of "injustice."

For more information: http://peterccook.com

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