NEW ORLEANS —

Looking through an old high school yearbook, his collection of keepsakes is vast.

Chase Cassine is now 35. Advertisement

When Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, he was a 15-year-old sophomore at Warren Easton High School in Mid-City.

"It was hard navigating loss, uncertainty, change — it was very abrupt," Cassine said.

After moving to Arkansas for several months, Cassine was fortunate.

He was able to come back to Warren Easton and finish school.

"Leaning on family is what allowed all of us to process it collectively and individually," Cassine said.

But when Cassin came back, Easton was a charter school, and dozens of others were headed in the same direction.

And 20 years after Katrina, that's the model now.

Out of 67 public schools in New Orleans 66 are charters, only

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