NEW ORLEANS — Some community leaders in the Ninth Ward are vowing not to give up on their dream of having a high school in the neighborhood.

After rebuilding and reopening nearly a decade ago, the Orleans school board voted to close MLK High School, but some in the community say the fight is not over.

It's very quiet around MLK High School in the Lower Ninth Ward, and a few things could use a little tidying up.

“It's a sin and a shame how not only what they've done to King School, this high school, but what they've done to this community,” said Paster Joseph Recasner, the former interim principal at the school.

The school that took community members 11 hard-fought years to open after Hurricane Katrina is empty. The Orleans Parish School Board in the past said it was the shrinking size

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