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          • Rebuilding and Transforming
          • An Analysis of the Recommendation Concerning the Transfer of RSD Schools to Local Control
          • Return on Educational Investment
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          • Creating a Governing Framework for Public Education in New Orleans
          • On Recovery School Districts and Stronger State Education Agencies: Lessons from Louisiana
          • Charter School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
          • Meeting the Challenge
          • The Legacy of Katrina’s Children
          • The State of Charter School Authorizing 2009
          • New Orleans Index at Five
          • Breaking New Ground
          • Louisiana’s Turnaround Zone: Answering the Urgency of Now
          • America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for School Reform: Attracting Entrepreneurs and Change Agents
          • The New Orleans Index: Tracking Recovery
          • Rethinking Teacher Evaluation in Chicago Lessons Learned from Classroom Observations, Principal-Teacher Conferences, and District Implementation
          • NOLA by the Numbers: School Performance Scores
          • Hope Needs Help
          • Questions and Answers About the Return of Schools to Local Control
          • Seeing is Believing
          • GulfGov Reports: An Examination of Impacts of Hurricanes on Public Schools
          • State of Charter School Authorizing 2010
          • Education after Katrina
          • Managing Innovation: Models for Governing the System of Public Schools in New Orleans
          • Building Local Leadership for Change
          • The Plight of the Education Systems Post Katrina
          • Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2011
          • A Review and Critique of Rebuilding and Transforming
          • Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools
          • The Economic Value of High Teacher Quality
          • The State of Public Education in New Orleans: Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
          • Young Children after Katrina
          • The State of Public Education in New Orleans: School Finances
          • State Policies that Pay
          • The 2011 State of Public Education in New Orleans
          • Student Displacement in Louisiana After 2005 Hurricanes
          • America’s Teacher Corps
          • Miles to go Louisiana
          • Is School Funding Fair?
          • ‘National Model’ or Flawed Approach?
          • The Future of Public Education in New Orleans
          • K-12 Public Education Reform in New Orleans
          • No Experience Necessary?
          • A Close Look at the 2010 LEAP Scores and Their Gains and Declines Over Time
          • Value Added Assessment
          • Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success
          • A Louisiana Case Study
          • Effects Of Hurricanes Katrina And Rita On Student Evacuees
          • Orleans Parish LEAP/GEE Scores
          • Public Education Governance Structure Organizational Chart March 2011
          • From Cradle to Career
          • Early Assessment of Student Achievement
          • Potential Economic Impacts
          • Leap and Gee
          • The Transformation of a School System: Principal, Teacher, and Parent Perceptions of Charter and Traditional Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans
          • NCLB: A Steep Climb Ahead
          • Orleans Parish School Tax Renewals
          • New Schools in New Orleans
          • Education after Katrina
          • Time for a Federal Response
          • Blueprint: 21st Century Schools
          • A Student’s Perspective
          • Charter School Autonomy: A Half Broken Promise
          • New Orleans Public School History
          • The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State
          • Rebuilding Inequity
          • State of Public Education in New Orleans
          • Standards for Quality
          • States Learning about Charter Schools
          • Philadelphia State Takeover
          • High Performing Schools
          • Does Information Help Families Choose Schools? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
          • State Data Systems
          • Foundations for Success
          • The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement
          • Expanded Measures of School Performance
          • The Unique System of Charter Schools in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina: Distinctive Structure, Familiar Challenges
          • Damage Assessment of NOPS Facilities
          • World’s Best Performing Schools
          • The Return Model: A New Approach to Governance for Public Schools in New Orleans
          • The New Orleans Index at Five: Measuring Greater New Orleans’ Progress toward Prosperity
          • Starting Fresh Teachers
          • NOLA by the Numbers: High-Stakes Testing
          • New Orleans: The Challenges of Equity and Scale
          • Six Public High Schools, Six Years after the Storm
          • Equity after Katrina
          • The State of Public Education in New Orleans
          • The New Orleans Index at Six
          • What Makes KIPP Work? A Study of Student Characteristics, Attrition, and School Finance
          • The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings
          • Funding’s Tragic Flaw
          • Charting a New Course to Retirement
          • Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools
          • Governance Challenges to Innovators within the System
          • Fund the Child
          • Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
          • Seven Topics in Education
          • Starting Fresh: Engaging Parents
          • Student Characteristics and Achievement in 22 KIPP Middle Schools
          • Achievement in Chicago Charter Schools
          • Charter School Indicators
          • Principles and Standards
          • Quantity Counts
          • Driving Quality:Can Charter Incubators Solve the Problem of Too Many Mediocre Charter Schools?
          • The Future of Charter Schools and Teachers
          • Performance and Demographics of Public Schools in New Orleans
          • Starting Fresh
          • High Quality Charter Schools
          • Hopes, Fears, and Reality
          • Successful Charter Schools
          • Measuring Inequity in School Funding
          • Held Captive: Child Poverty in America
          • Public School Performance in New Orleans
          • The State of Public Education in New Orleans: School Facilities
          • The State of Public Education in New Orleans 2007
          • Surveying the Public High School Landscape in New Orleans
          • Public Education Governance Structure Chart
          • Stretching the School Dollar
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Other Sources of Information about Public Education Policy

School Facilities
Report from National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities

School Finances
Recovery School District’s Budget Web Page
Orleans Parish School Board’s Budget Web Page
Louisiana Department of Education’s Web Page on MFP Funding

National Education
United States Department of Education

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Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

New Orleans Education
New Orleans Public Schools
School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish
Recovery School District

Latest News

  • The Charter Application Process in New Orleans

    Click here to read our blog on the charter application process in New Orleans.

  • NOLA by the Numbers: First-Time College Freshmen, Class of 2010

    Click here to download our report looking at college enrollment rates for New Orleans public school graduates.

  • Scott Cowen Named New Orleanian of the Year by the Gambit for His Work in Education Reform

    Congratulations Dr. Cowen! Click here to read the article.

  • Louisiana’s Minimum Foundation Program Formula: Analyzing the Results

    Click here to read our analysis of the MFP.

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Press

  • Parent Opinion Poll Highlighted by the Associated Press

    Click here to read the article.

  • The Future of Public School Governance in New Orleans Remains Uncertain

    The Times-Picayune highlights the questions raised by the Cowen Institute in our December 2010 policy brief on the RSD return policy.

  • New Orleans City Business Calls on Governor Jindal to Better Fund Public Education

    Click here to read the article, which references Cowen Institute research.

  • Paul Vallas Appointed Interim Superintendent in Bridgeport, Connecticut

    The Connecticut Post reflects on his tenure in New Orleans in this article.

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