THE NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL FACILITY PROJECT

Founded in 2009, NOSFP is a non-profit organization with a mission to promote equitable access to public school buildings for all public school programs in Orleans Parish.쯳pan>

The Project is currently working with community groups, public officials, business leaders, charter school leaders and advocates, and a broad cross-section of the general public to recommend and establish a mechanism for equitable access쯳pan>to publicly owned properties and find and implement solutions to long-standing problems related to public school facility management, maintenance and repair.

Across the country, public charter schools struggle to gain access to high quality facilities with the appropriate amount of space to educate their students. ﳰan>A majority of charter schools are not able to use public school buildings even in Cities where those buildings stand vacant.쯳pan>In New Orleans, we have a unique opportunity to create a new way of doing things.쯳pan>We are fortunate that the federal government is providing an enormous amount of financial assistance to repair historic school buildings and build many new facilities for our children. However, in order to ensure that we do not squander this opportunity, we must find new ways to fund acquisition, development, renovation, maintenance, and capital repairs in the future.꼯span>We must distinguish the role of the property owner from the school tenants and clearly define how charter schools and others will utilize these buildings. ﳰan>

If you are interested in learning more or would like to participate in our discussions, please contact NOSFP Founder, Kathleen Padian, kpadian@nosfp.org or 504-655-0213

NOSFP is funded through the generosity of Building Hope www.buildinghope.org and The Walton Family Foundation