This Gladdens My Heart II

AP: Parochial School Reopens in New Orleans---

NEW ORLEANS - Just a week after residents began returning to the city's Algiers neighborhood, a parochial school there reopened Monday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck, and its principal told pupils their school is "a place you can call home now."

As St. Andrew the Apostle Elementary School sprang back to life, Sybil Skansi reminded the teachers about handing in attendance sheets, while the students — some who have attended there before, and some who were displaced from other schools — were reminded they were welcome to try out for the drama team.
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It was the only Catholic school in Orleans Parish to reopen Monday, though archdiocese officials said schools elsewhere in the archdiocese also were reopening. City public schools remain closed, but officials are developing a plan to reopen some by November, subject to environmental, health and safety concerns.