Lower Ninth Residents Clean-up School Themselves

Residents of the Lower Ninth combined forces with Common Ground Collective volunteers and a group from Howard University to start cleaning out a school yesterday, according to this blog article. The school is right on Claiborne, so we drove past it during our visit.

As we saw, there are almost no children in the Ninth Ward, partly because there are no schools for them to return to. It is imperative that schools be refurbished and faculty and staff be in place soon if there is to be any hope of return for homeowners and citizens of the Ninth.