Article: New Orleans' 5-Graders Envision Future

NEW ORLEANS - Since they're going to be the Class of 2015, we asked fifth-graders at the newly opened Langston Hughes Academy Charter School to tell us what their city will look like on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Their answers ran the gamut from hopeful to uncertain - but all were in agreement on one thing. New Orleans does have a future. Here's a sampling:

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"In 2015 New Orleans will look new. All of the flooded buildings will be rebuild. New Orleans will be bigger. They will have new schools and new parks. ... Many of the houses will be raised so the won't flood again."

-Jozeff Lee, 10, who is still waiting to return to his New Orleans East home.

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