High schools are viewed by policymakers, practitioners, and researchers alike as key institutions in facilitating access to college, especially for minoritized students from low-income families. A school-wide strategy for making college accessible is for high schools to establish a college-going culture that normalizes college attendance, elevates…

School reforms in New Orleans have brought sweeping changes to the way public schools are governed and managed, and to the way in which students are assigned to public schools. Non-profit charter school boards now govern over 90% of public schools, and families are able to choose the public school in which they enroll. Competition within the…

With a nearly 100% charter operated school system, New Orleans is a model for the market-based charter reform movement in the US. After Hurricane Katrina, the state legislature significantly expanded the definition of a failing school thereby transferring the majority of Orleans Parish schools to the control of the state-run Recovery School…