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Herzing University is a private, non-profit university with multiple locations throughout the United States, including an Online division. The university offers associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in addition to certificates and diplomas across several key program areas, including nursing and healthcare, behavioral health, business, and technology.
Gilbert Academy. / 29.927; -90.112. Gilbert Academy was a premier preparatory school for African-American high school students in New Orleans, Louisiana. Begun in 1863 in New Orleans as a home for colored children orphaned by the American Civil War, the home moved to Baldwin, Louisiana, in 1867. The Orphans Home evolved into a school and, over ...
Educator, pastor. Years active. 1814–1875. Known for. Leader in school reform movement. Samuel Read Hall (October 27, 1795 – June 24, 1877) was an American educator.
The New Orleans school desegregation crisis was a period of intense public resistance in New Orleans that followed the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. The conflict peaked when U.S. Circuit Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered desegregation in New Orleans to ...
Sam Barthe School for Boys. Sam Barthe School for Boys, or Barthe as it was locally known, was an all-boys private school that existed for more than forty years in Metairie, Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish in the Greater New Orleans area. [ 1] It featured a spartan lifefstyle and a broad education in both college preparatory academics and sports.
Orleans Parish School Board. / 29.928789; -90.020757 ( District office) The Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), branded as NOLA Public Schools, governs the public school system that serves New Orleans, Louisiana. It includes the entirety of Orleans Parish, coterminous with New Orleans.
The school was named in honor of New Orleans social activist Eleanor McMain. It opened in 1932 originally as an all-girls school. [4][5] It became a coeducational junior high school in 1952, and a coeducational secondary with a magnet program in 1974. It later became an all-magnet school.
Isidore Newman School was founded in 1903 by Isidore Newman, a New Orleans philanthropist and founder of the Maison Blanche department store chain. It opened its doors the following year as the Isidore Newman Manual Training School (the name was changed in 1931), [2] and it was initially intended for Jewish orphans.