. >> barbara ferguson and walter goodwin worked as, they were fired in 2006 in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. >> this has to come as a shock. i mean, it's like how low can you go? >> after katrina, families were slower to trickle back into nonls. new orleans. with fewer students, they had to let people go. he believes that federal state and local officials took advantage of what they always wanted, to dismantle the public school system. >> there were some teachers that needed to go, principals that needed to go, school board members that needed to go. but we were not responsible for the finances of this school. we were not responsible for the politics that the school board entered into with the state. that wasn't the teachers. >> an educator for more than 30 years, goodwin said the school system had all sorts of problems. things like large class sizes, crumbling buildings and a dysfunctional school board. >> there were teachers that worked in what they call failing schools. this is a teacher that did not work in a failing school. this teacher could have had the opportunity to work in

. >> barbara ferguson and walter goodwin worked as principals in the new orleans's school system. with 7,000 employees they were fired in 2006 in the aftermath of katrina. > this has to come as a shock. it's, like, how low can you go. >> after katrina families were slow to trickle to new orleans. with fewer students in the school, officials say they had no choice but to let employees go. >> it's a conflict of center. >> goodwin doesn't buy it, believing local, state and federal officials took advantage of katrina to do something they wanted. dismantle the school system. >> this was a public agenda before katrina. there were people that needed to go, teachers, school board members. we were not responsible for the finances of the school, for the poll tucks that the school -- politics that the school bard entered into with the state. >> an educator for more than 30 years, educators long blamed teachers. there were problems - charge class sizes, crumbling buildings and dysfunctioning board. >> teachers worked in what they called failing school. if you have a teacher that didn't work i