Current Projects
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Private Schools & Choice: The Student Scholarships for Education Excellence Pilot Program in Orleans Parish
Click here to read the latest report in our Spotlight on Choice project.
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NOLA by the Numbers: First-Time College Freshmen, Class of 2010
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77% of Public School Students in New Orleans Attend a Charter School
Click here to read our latest NOLA by the Numbers on the October 2011 enrollment data.
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Transforming Public Education in New Orleans: The Recovery School District, 2003-2011
Click here to read a comprehensive history of the RSD in New Orleans.
Research Archive
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Is Louisiana’s Recovery School District a Model for Other States?
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute draws lessons for Ohio in this new report.
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Rethinking Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
New report looks at CMOs around the country, including in New Orleans.
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A Look at School-By-School Finances, 2009-2010
Charter Schools Indicators
Center on Educational Governance
University of Southern California
2007
Abstract:
The first report of its kind, Charter Schools Indicators-USC transforms data submitted to the state for compliance purposes into a tool for school improvement and accountability.
Performance measures are organized into four areas: financial resources and investment, school quality, student performance and academic productivity. The report also updates the profile of the California charter school population. CSI-USC’s quality measures use both academic and financial data, existing figures and new measures created expressly for this report. They are presented as indices; each index is composed of a set of individual data elements. Most indices compare charter schools to non-charter public schools. When the data for individual non-charter public schools is not publicly available, comparisons focus on changes in charter school performance over time.