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...More entrepreneurial districts have used aggressive marketing-glossy brochures, marketing classes for principals - to recruit students for certain schools. That approach seems to have worked to maintain diversity at Montgomery County, Md., Lee County, Fla. and Duval County, Fla. schools, says Maree Sneed, an attorney who helped represent the Seattle School District in the case decided today. Magnet schools engage in a form of marketing by attracting students through special, often high-level, programs and classes. Their record is mixed at best on creating racial diversity...
...wonder Sneed, director of the New Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness, shoots you an exasperated look when asked about what the disaster plans are for animals - a look that says the pet issue has become something of a pet peeve...
...wrong: Sneed likes animals as much as the next guy. But making provisions for the evacuation of pets, now mandated under state and federal law, adds one more layer of complexity to the already difficult task of getting people out of harm's way if a hurricane threatens Southeast Louisiana this year...
...concerns of animal rights advocates notwithstanding, the biggest issue to emergency authorities are the people who stayed in New Orleans for Katrina because they refused to leave their pets behind. "To a lot of people, these animals are their children," Sneed says. A survey conducted after Katrina found that 44% of those who chose to ride out the storm did it because they could not evacuate with their animals. Should another evacuation be called, he says, "we have to make it more practical for people to leave than to stay. If one of the reasons people stayed was because they...
...need for people who have their own means to leave the city to make animals a part of their evacuation plan, whether it's scoping out in advance a hotel that allow pets or reserving space at a kennel outside the danger zone. For the city's part, Sneed says that, in compliance with the state and federal laws enacted after Katrina, people who do not have their own way out of town will be allowed to bring their pets with them when they report to one of the 13 pickup points scattered around New Orleans. The animals - provided they...