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Extreme Measures: When and How School Closures and Charter Takeovers Benefit Students

Date & Time
Monday, October 17, 2016
5:30–7:30 pm
Location
Tulane City Center
Extreme Measures: When and How School Closures and Charter Takeovers Benefit Students

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.

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Media requests should be direct­ed to Sara Slaugh­ter.

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