HIST 12B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Capitalism
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House passed a bill to provide . 1 billion for cleanup and rebuilding of the gulf coast in the wake of hurricanes katrina and rita. Republicans killed amendment providing million to fortify levees in new orleans to withstand a category 3 hurricane. Rejected an amendment that would have barred fema from evicting residents from temporary housing. )(no money was allocated to the struggling healthcare system. Privatizing public education (schools weren"t great before katrina, but for a lot of educational reform people, katrina provided the opportunity to privatize and transform this system. ) Nearly 8,500 teachers and staff were fired; federal funds allocated for public schools was miniscule. Tried to break the united teachers of new orleans (unto) (they tried to break the teacher"s union. It was predominantly african american, and it was not only a teachers union, but a democratic organization. It was one of the sources of the black middle class in new orleans. )
