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7000 New Orleans Teachers Laid Off After Katrina Win Court Ruling

Danielle Dreilinger The Times-Picayune/The Advocate
An appeals court has decided that the School Board wrongly terminated more than 7,000 teachers after Hurricane Katrina. Those teachers were not given due process, and many teachers had the right to be rehired as jobs opened up in the first years after the storm, the court said in a unanimous opinion.