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CRPE founder Paul Hill coined and developed the portfolio strategy model, a problem-solving framework through which education and civic leaders develop a citywide system of high-quality, diverse, autonomous public schools. It emphasizes choice, accountability, and continuous improvement as levers to create more dynamic and equitable public education systems. While portfolio strategy is not currently a central focus of CRPE’s research, it remains an important part of our legacy, and our team continues to examine its relevance to today’s education challenges.

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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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Front-Runners and Dark Horses: How Districts Are Faring on Portfolio Strategy Implementation

Christine Campbell, Jordan Posamentier

Every spring for the past three years, CRPE has reviewed how school systems implementing the portfolio strategy are faring. Through phone interviews with key contacts in these districts—sometimes the superintendent, sometimes a cabinet member—we look at each of the strategy’s key components, catalog work underway in each area, and score results based on a rubric.

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Avoiding the Comprehensive Schools Trap for Charter High Schools

Paul Hill, Tricia Maas

In any city, there are plenty of neighborhoods with few or no good schools. For the students and families in these areas, even just one or two soundly conceived and well-run charter schools can make a difference.

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Shining a Light on Common Enrollment

Betheny Gross

What do school choice and power supply in South Asia have in common? Turns out, more than you might think. As we learned when researching our new report, Common Enrollment, Parents, and School Choice: Early Evidence from Denver and New Orleans, common enrollment is an important step in making school choice work for families.

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The Charter-District Relationship: Is Generating Goodwill Enough?

Sean Gill, Sarah Yatsko

With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, there are now 21 cities in which leaders have signed official District-Charter Collaboration Compacts.

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Common Enrollment, Parents, and School Choice: Early Evidence from Denver and New Orleans

Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond, Patrick Denice

This report examines the implementation and early results of common enrollment systems in Denver and New Orleans.

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The High School Challenge to Districts and Charters

Paul Hill, Tricia Maas

Despite little bits of progress here and there, the problem of big-city high schools—how to motivate students to stay engaged and learn what they need to be eligible for college and good jobs—remains unsolved.

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Charter High Schools and the “Backfill” Debate

Paul Hill, Tricia Maas

A debate about “backfill”—whether charter high schools should add students to replace those who drop out—has just begun (see here, here, and here).

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Real-World Governance Change

Paul Hill, Ashley Jochim

This blog was originally posted onFordham’s Flypaper. We need to take issue with a point in Andy Smarick’s thoughtful review, published in Flypaper, of our new book, A Democratic Constitution for Public Education.

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