Louisiana promises to hire more minority-owned businesses for New Orleans school construction

June 26, 2012
Many have criticized the lack of minorities involved in rebuilding hurricane-damaged facilities

From nola.com: Louisiana's Recovery School District, which is overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars of construction on New Orleans school buildings, is promising to give more contracts to minority-owned businesses. State officials say they will make it an explicit goal to direct 25 percent of their spending toward the "economically disadvantaged business concerns of our community." State and local officials have faced criticism over the fact that only a small percentage of the $2 billion in federal aid going to rebuild the city's public education infrastructure has ended up with local, African-American contractors.

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