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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Where The Schools Went Episode 1: What Washed Away

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Years before the levees failed, New Orleans’ public schools were already in crisis. The corruption was so entrenched that the FBI even set up shop inside the district. The first episode of Where the Schools Went uncovers how decades of mismanagement and neglect turned New Orleans into a cautionary tale long before Hurricane Katrina ever made landfall, and how it set the stage for what would come after. We also follow a group of educators who fled to Houston in the aftermath of the storm and built a school for displaced students. And then we follow them – and their students – back to a city and school system struggling to rebuild.  For more episodes of 'Where The Schools Went,' listen here or anywhere you find podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:46.5

Hello, everybody.

0:47.5

This is Ravi Gupta, the co-hosts of Majority 54, which is on the Midas Network,

0:52.3

and I've been working with these guys for years,

0:54.3

and we've been working on a very special project. It's called Where the Schools Went. It is a

0:59.6

five-part podcast series all about the New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina school reforms.

1:06.5

The past 20 years of what happened after Hurricane Katrina when basically an entire school system

1:13.1

disappeared and people had to work together to build something new. And it's a really

1:18.7

inspiring and challenging story that really gets the heart of, you know, politics, policy,

1:26.1

government service. And I think you're going to learn a lot.

1:30.2

It's going to captivate you and you're going to meet a lot of people. We spoke to over 50 people

1:34.0

as part of this story. Meet a lot of people who are really heroes out there doing the work

1:40.8

of trying to educate the most vulnerable people in our country.

1:47.0

And so I'm really happy to partner with the guys, the brothers at Midas, and everybody else on the team for this.

1:49.4

And we're going to be dropping one episode every week on this feed.

1:53.0

So check out our very first episode.

1:55.4

Here we go.

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