Sugarcane Academy

Sugarcane Academy: Building a School After Katrina tells the story of one adventurous teacher and his one-room schoolhouse. Circling around Mr. Reynaud's educational oasis are parents coping with losing their homes and trying to plan new futures, while learning to live on food stamps and FEMA assistance checks. It's a story of an unexpected journey to Cajun country for a classroom of children who are among the youngest victims of a national disaster. Sugarcane Academy also tells the stories of other evacuee children who landed in the Lafayette area. A boy born of Ukrainian parents who holed up