On 2nd Anniversary of Katrina, horrendous difference between Recovery Assistance granted most of New Orleans & the Indifference, Ethnic Cleansing and Double Standard treatment (including the Red Cross) to the mostly Black Lower 9th Ward.

Viewed before Katrina as institutional disaster, New Orleans' public schools got a second shot at success by implementing a bold experiment in public schooling. 60% of the city's reopened schools are now independently-run charter schools.