It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch

No matter which era of recent U.S. history we look back on, we seem to be constantly working on two issues healthcare and education. The debate at the center of these discussions is often financial. Where is Federal or state money for reform going to come from And if reform is privately funded, how are these fundamental requirements distributed equally In Louisiana and especially here in New Orleans healthcare and education are going down their own unique, and very different paths. New Orleans is the only city in the United States where one hundred percent of our public schools are charter schools. What started out as a post Katrina experiment has become a nationwide trendsetting model. The Executive Director of the Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools, Caroline Roemer Shirley, joins Peter on Out to Lunch to discuss the new education business model that s becoming a model for other cities. In healthcare, although here in New Orleans we are spending millions of dollars constructing hospitals, the Ka