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Crosby, of the Metacomet, at once began sweeping above, and so successfully that on the 10th the Octorara and ironclads were able to move abreast Spanish Fort and shell two earthworks, called Huger and

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The 790 children Jim Huger had recruited for Lafayette Academy of New Orleans included Avion Williams, a twelve-year-old girl with a sweet face and long braids.

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Huger had partnered with Mosaica Education Inc., a for-profit educational management firm that administers ninety charter schools in the United States and abroad and has developed an innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum.

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But under the guidelines, choice ran only one way: Huger would have to educate any child who chose him.

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But Huger was promising something almost as good: “a private-school education at no cost to you,” as one of his staff put it.

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Huger agreed, but argued that his school, with its own board members walking the halls and demanding accountability, had a better chance of succeeding than a school in a centralized system.

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Huger would have preferred that his school have selective admissions, by which students are screened on criteria like test scores and grade-point averages.

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This was because Huger, whose business interests ranged from real estate to construction to parking lots, understood the marketplace better than most.

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Huger — white, well-educated, well-off — came across as someone who had never wanted for much, but he wanted the endorsement, or more accurately the enrollment, of the mostly black, less advantaged parents arrayed before him.

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Recognizing that the power to choose lay with the parents, Huger had scheduled a series of open houses to woo them.

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