NEW ORLEANS – The Recovery School District (RSD) and Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School of Literature and Technology celebrated the opening of the new Stuart R. Bradley building located at 2401 Humanity Street on today at 10:00 a.m.
Funding for the project was provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This project and others have been guided by the School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish, an unprecedented school construction program launched as a result of the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina. The $1.8 billion plan, approved in November 2008 by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Orleans Parish School Board, is the first major facilities plan for Orleans Parish schools since 1952.
Scheduled to attend the celebration were:
• Patrick Dobard, Superintendent, Recovery School District
• Mary Haynes-Smith, Principal, Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School of Literature and Technology
• Henderson Lewis, Superintendent, New Orleans Public Schools
• Kira Orange Jones, BESE Board Member, District 2
• Seth Bloom, President, Orleans Parish School Board and District 5 Member
• Cynthia Cade, Vice-President, Orleans Parish School Board and Member, District 2
• Nolan Marshall, Orleans Parish School Board Member, District 7
• Jared Brossett, City Council, District D
• Edwin R. Murray, Louisiana Senate District 4
• Joseph Bouie, Louisiana State Representative, District 97
• Pastor Tom Watson, Watson Memorial Teaching Ministries
• Eddie Williams, Public Assistance Infrastructure Branch Chief, FEMA Louisiana Recovery Office
• Eva Kemp-Melder, Office of Former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu
• Marcus Johnson, Community Liaison, Office of U. S. Senator David Vitter
• Sam Joel, Policy Advisor to Mayor Mitch Landrieu, City of New Orleans
