The Edu­ca­tion Research Alliance (Era) for New Orleans held an invi­ta­tion-only Research Work­shop with 22 researchers from around the coun­try with exper­tise in char­ter schools, teacher qual­i­ty, and oth­er top­ics close­ly relat­ed to the New Orleans’ school reforms. A key pur­pose of the meet­ing was to estab­lish Era’s Nation­al Research Team that will help car­ry out our exten­sive research agenda.