We are pleased to announce that our next report, ​Extreme Mea­sures: When and How School Clo­sure and Char­ter Takeovers Ben­e­fit Students​, will be released at an event on Mon­day, Octo­ber 17, 2016, from 5:30 — 7:30 p.m. at the Tulane City Cen­ter. In this new report, authors Whit­ney Bross, Dou­glas N. Har­ris, and Lihan Liu ana­lyze the impact of clo­sures and takeovers on stu­dent out­comes in both New Orleans and Baton Rouge from 2008 – 2014. The event, which is spon­sored by the Orleans Pub­lic Edu­ca­tion Net­work (OPEN), will fea­ture a pre­sen­ta­tion of the study’s find­ings, as well as a pan­el dis­cus­sion with local and nation­al edu­ca­tion lead­ers about our results and their impli­ca­tions. Pan­elists will include: Dr. Hen­der­son Lewis, OPSB Super­in­ten­dent Dr. Andre Per­ry, The Data Cen­ter Dana Peter­son, RSD Deputy Super­in­ten­dent of Exter­nal Affairs Dr. Mered­ith Richards, South­ern Methodist Uni­ver­si­ty * Greg Rich­mond, NAC­SA Pres­i­dent and CEO We released a relat­ed report in Sep­tem­ber exam­in­ing the char­ter autho­riza­tion and renew­al process­es that often led to these clo­sures and takeovers. Har­ris sum­ma­rized that study’s key find­ings in a recent blog post at [Edu­ca­tion Week](http://campaigns.line58.com/t/r‑l-ydidjtik-l‑h/). Fol­low us on [Twitter](http://campaigns.line58.com/t/r‑l-ydidjtik-l‑k/) and [Facebook](http://campaigns.line58.com/t/r‑l-ydidjtik-l‑u/) for the lat­est news from ERA-New Orleans. Media requests should be direct­ed to Sara Slaugh­ter.