Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans' education system forever, creating the first all-charter school district in the U.S.

Sister Vera Butler (80), from Portmagee, Co Kerry, was living in New Orleans when the storm hit. Having joined the ...

When Hurricane Katrina struck 20 years ago, it devastated New Orleans and transformed its schools, leaving behind the nation's first all-charter district. For many who lived through that upheaval, the ...

New Orleans will mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina with official commemorative events, including memorials, cultural ...

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever destroying the school system but for ...

But I have lost a mother, and I have almost lost a city, and I can tell you that the feeling of one is similar to the other.

New Orleans' battered, 300-year-old history has been marked by fire, pestilence and storm, but Katrina was unprecedented in ...

Brandon Surtain scrolls through the photos on his iPhone, stopping at the snapshots taken in a studio — not the home studio ...

One hundred schools were put into a state-run district, and within a decade, the state closed all of them, replacing them ...

Two decades is a long time. Long enough for a new generation to have grown up with no memory of that terrible day in 2005 ...

United Way of Southeast Louisiana honored the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with an amplified day of service Saturday ...

When Hurricane Katrina touched down near New Orleans 20 years ago on Aug. 29, 2005, I was just beginning my journey as a first-year medical student. I remember watching the footage of families ...