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CRPE’s research examines both the promise and the challenges of charter schools and school choice, with a focus on how they can expand opportunity, drive innovation, and better serve diverse student needs. We study charter schools alongside district schools and other models, highlighting lessons that can inform the broader system. New data and evidence help innovators across the country collaborate, communicate, and develop best practices.

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Backfill in Charter High Schools: Practices to Learn From and Questions to be Answered

Paul Hill, Tricia Maas

Paul Hill and Tricia Maas explore the charter high school “backfill” issue, using interviews with charter sector leaders to understand competing perspectives and practices that support transfer students.

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New Orleans: From Recovery to Renaissance

As we approach the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I find myself bracing for a different kind of unwelcome deluge: commentators who reduce our complicated reality to lopsided praise or polemic.

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What’s the Next [R]evolution for New Orleans Schools?

Here is a question that I don’t know the answer to: what will be the third groundbreaking regulatory innovation born out of New Orleans?

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A Culture of High Expectations in New Orleans

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

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Do Charters Cause Portfolio or Does Portfolio Cause Charters? Chickens and Eggs Revisited

Christine Campbell

Last week, Neerav Kingsland made an important argument in his blog about charter market share and cities adopting the portfolio strategy.

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Changing the Narrative in New Orleans: Sarah Newell Usdin Talks with Adam Hawf

Sarah Newell Usdin is District 3 Representative of Orleans Parish School Board and founder and past CEO of New Schools for New Orleans.

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A Renewed Sense of Hope in New Orleans: Jamar McKneely Talks with Adam Hawf

Jamar McKneely is the Chief Executive Officer of InspireNOLA Charter Schools. Adam Hawf previously served as assistant superintendent of Portfolio at the Louisiana Department of Education, and deputy superintendent of Portfolio at the Louisiana Recovery School District.

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New Orleans: Building a Strong Teacher Pipeline for Tomorrow’s Schools

New Orleans is in uncharted territory. As recently as 2010, just three non-selective admissions schools had strong enough academic programs to earn an “A” or “B” from the state.

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New Orleans: A City That Works—Together

Imagine a city where all high school students have had a series of job experiences by the time they graduate. When many of us think back to some of the essential lessons we learned growing up—lessons around hard work, reliability, punctuality, a service ethic—we find that we developed many of our habits of mind through our early working experiences.

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Ten Years After: What’s Next for New Orleans?

Robin Lake

Last week educators, researchers, and policymakers gathered in New Orleans to take stock of how the public school system there is faring 10 years after Hurricane Katrina.

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