It started with a simple yet bold idea. What if we asked students how school could be improved? In this collection filled with brief ideas and longer formal proposals, students lend a hand in describing how they would improve the educational system that they themselves are most familiar with. Students suggest: having more time at school to work on homework, making school feel more like home, and letting kids be themselves at lunch.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “There Is No School Without Us contains nearly 100 student and teacher reflections and offers varying, unedited accounts of their experiences. This book is for anybody who works, attends, or cares about elementary and secondary schools in New Orleans. Written and Edited by the Young Writers Council.”