Leslie Jacobs
Leslie Jacobs
Leslie Rosenthal Jacobsis an award-winning education reform advocate, business executive and philanthropist. Born in New Orleans, she built her family's small, independent insurance agency into one of the largest in the South, before merging the Rosenthal Agency with Hibernia National Bank. For the last 25 years, she has been a passionate voice for education reform, serving initially as an elected member of the Orleans Parish School Board and then as a member of the State Board of Elementary and Secondary...
achieve eighth figure higher passing rate success though
Our fourth-graders were very successful. They had just about the same passing rate as our eighth-graders, even though they had to achieve at a higher standard. We have to figure out how to have the same success at eighth grade.
board district hard lining needs school silver start
It's hard to find a silver lining from Katrina, but one silver lining is that the school board can start anew. And if any school district needs to start anew, it's Orleans.