Rooted School grows a New Orleans future

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — When a New Orleans school needed a name, the search was on for a world that feels grounded.

With a firm foundation.

Deep and long-lasting, WGNO Good Morning New Orleans features reporter Bill Wood found out.

“Our goal was to keep the brilliance and ingenuity of our young people right here in New Orleans,” said school leader and executive director Kaitlin Karpinski.

And what name did the school choose? Rooted. It’s the Rooted School.

It’s inside the campus of SUNO, Southern University at New Orleans.

There, students get rooted by earning college credits starting in the ninth grade.

They can earn up to two years’ worth of college credits toward a degree.

Karpinski said the goal is “to put students on a personalized pathway to financial freedom.”

This school really is rooted like a tall tree with branches that reach out and up and into the possibilities of life.

When you plant a seed in a place like New Orleans, you never know what will grow right out of the good earth.

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