We want school to be a place where they see themselves being successful.” “The average kid we see has already been struggling, already has had attendance challenges and has been failed by and at the schools he attended. “With a lot of work, it can become really spectacular,” he said. Ultimately, Domenici believes that CEEAS can oversee transformation at the school. A handful of the new schools have succeeded some have failed others have made slow, incremental improvement.ĭomenici is not naïve about the challenges: he first began working with the Youth Study Center about a year ago, when he and his staff were hired as contractors to help shape instruction there, as they do in dozens of juvenile facilities across the country.
With 90 percent of New Orleans students now attending schools run by charters, New Orleanians have grown accustomed to hearing enthusiastic spiels from new school operators over the past 10 years. The new relationship with CEEAS is also an indication of the tremendous turnaround made in recent years by the city of New Orleans, which operates the Youth Study Center, and the school board, which is in charge of education there.ĭespite the small student body at the Youth Study Center, the stakes are high whenever a rash of armed robberies or other serious crimes are tied to young people, advocates in New Orleans express concern that the perpetrators may be children who fell through the cracks after Katrina and, as a result, have unaddressed academic and psychological issues. The new contract is a key test for CEEAS, because many students in New Orleans are still suffering from the trauma of Hurricane Katrina and the schooling gaps that followed.
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