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Vallas is part of that surge. He was persuaded to leave Philadelphia and take over the New Orleans' Recovery School District by the state's new reform-minded superintendent of education, Paul Pastorek, and by Senator Mary Landrieu, long a proponent of choice and charter schools. They want to give leaders their own schools, give the parents a choice and let the state funding follow the pupils to whatever schools the parents choose. It's a voucher system in all but name that blows up the monopoly of a traditional school district. In the process, they have attracted the best...
...Senator Mary Landrieu, a Lousiana Democrat, sounded a particularly frustrated note at the conditions facing officers in her state's signature city as she called for increased federal assistance to New Orleans. And while Congress recently appropriated over $50 million towards combating crime in Mississippi and Louisiana, Landrieu nonetheless criticized the Administration for overlooking the Crescent City's police force and echoed Sen. Leahy's earlier shot, "While the Administration has written a blank check for the war in Iraq, it cannot seem to find the necessary support for those who need it in New Orleans...
...community organizations, African-American leaders like Jefferson have built clout by mobilizing black voters, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. And Democrats will need all the help they can get to hold on to the governor's office later this year, as well as the Senate seat held by Mary Landrieu. Landrieu, who will run for a third term in 2008, is considered one of the party's most vulnerable candidates, and a strong turnout by black voters will be crucial for her reelection - and for the Democrats' hope of taking Louisiana in the Presidential race...
...There's still time for another high-profile candidate to enter the race, perhaps lieutenant governor Mitch Landrieu, a Democrat and younger brother of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. He lost a bid to replace New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin last year. But the state's scrambled demographics could complicate matters: Hurricane Katrina cut the population of New Orleans, a Democratic stronghold, by half. And while many of those voters, mostly African-American, have resettled elsewhere in Louisiana, the dispersal will make it harder for Democrats to cobble together the coalition of black and Cajun votes that have traditionally helped them...
...Many parents, school officials and education experts agree that Katrina provided New Orleans with an unprecedented opportunity to reconstitute a system that was failing its citizens. "I say, 'Thank you, Katrina' all the time," said Orleans Parish School Board President Phyllis Landrieu...