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Dear Abramson Charter School Supporters,

On July 17, 2011, The Times Picayune (TP) run a story about Abramson Science and Technology Charter School (Abramson). In this story, the TP outlined allegations about Abramson that were misleading and unreliable. Many of these alleged incidents were more than a year old and the school officials responded successfully to the Louisiana Department of Education about these alleged incidents and the case was closed. However the TP reporter published these allegations as if they there new. In addition, the TP reported omitted to provide truth about what really happened in the school. Therefore, we decided to provide this document to clarify any misconceptions.

In summary, we would like to emphasize following important points;

- All allegations mentioned in the article has satisfying answers supported by number of records including police reports, incident records, and/or signed personal statements.

- Many of these allegation were surfaced after school fired three disgruntle employees who were disrupting healthy learning environment.

- As a result of firing, state officials asked Abramson to go through corrective action plans. Collaboratively and transparently, the Abramson officials completed the plan.

- The discipline incident between Kindergarten students was handled professionally. Abramson notified parents, the NOPD and the Child Protective Service.

Since the Pelican Foundation began operating Abramson in 2007, School Performance Scores (SPS) have increased 45 points from 33 to 78. Recently, Abramson received a Certificate of Recognition by the Louisiana Department of Education for improvement in student success.

• The graduation rate was increased significantly,
• The dropout rate was reduced significantly,
• Attendance rate reached 97%.

The goal of this blog is to provide a place and an opportunity to share the facts from the source and to clarify any misconceptions created by several articles that we believe only told one side of the story without relying on slid facts but instead mostly on hearsay and gossip.

We are stating the answers to these unfounded allegations below. Click here to download the answers as PDF document