Riggs did his best to adjust, but after failing the seventh grade he dropped out of Oak Lawn Terrebonne Parish High School and has since found his education through other means.

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Telford College of Arts and Technology, the Phoenix School and Great Dawley Parish Council are also involved in the project.

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Last year, the majority (61%) of public school students in Orleans Parish (counties in NOLA are called parishes) attended charter schools, which are now attracting some middle class families.

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In Orleans Parish, academic performance scores in the school district have risen nearly 25 percent.

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Father Duffell, a parish priest for 43 years, said his school is opting out.

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As the parish grew, we also grew from two Latino students to 250 this school year.

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In the parish of Over Stowey in Somerset, Panorama follows villagers attempts to prevent a former boarding school being converted in to a hostel to house asylum seekers.

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And with the election to the school board, which they also helped to finance, they have taken to intervening in parish-pump politics.

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The parish council has just handed over 14 trees to mark tree planting week, which are now in the school grounds.

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Mr McPherson-Davies, a former chairman of the Ramsden Crays Parish Council, believed it would take some time before children from the settled community started to return to the school.

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