NOLA Education creates 'national training center,' buying an historic row on Julia Street

John Alvendia, founder and CEO of NOLA Education, has taken a major step in expanding his fast-growing national educational program with the recent purchase of nearly an entire row of historic buildings along the 600 block of Julia Street in the Warehouse District.

The new space, which stretches from St. Charles Avenue to Church Street, will serve as NOLA Education’s National Training Center, allowing the company to bring teachers from across the country to New Orleans for intensive, hands-on training in its Star Academy program.

“We just kind of focus on doing what we do, and because the program works where other programs don’t work, we’re able to keep expanding,” he said.

Alvendia said NOLA Education has been training hundreds of teachers at dozens of locations around the country an