How New Orleans Proved Urban Education Reform Can Work
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina wiped out huge swaths of the city’s infrastructure and displaced its population, a disaster that paradoxically gave the city the chance to redesign its failing school system. Rather than re-create the neighborhood-based schools that had recapitulated generations of poverty, the city created a network of public charter schools. The charters, which have open admission and public accountability, have produced spectacular results.
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[PDF] The Hidden Connection in City-wide Reform: How Charter Schools Can Bring Equity to Public Education
Over the past decade, New Orleans civic leaders reinvented the city’s public education system. Today, 93 percent of New Orleans public school children attend charter schools.
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