Research Team: Deven Carl­son, ​University of Oklahoma​; Nathan Bar­rett, ​Education Research Alliance for New Orleans​As a major com­po­nent of com­pre­hen­sive school reform, the Louisiana state Recov­ery School Dis­trict (RSD) per­ma­nent­ly closed, char­tered, and rechar­tered dozens of New Orleans schools between 2009 and 2015. In pri­or work, ERA researchers Whit­ney Bross, Dou­glas Har­ris, and Lihan Liu have doc­u­ment­ed [sub­stan­tial gains in stu­dent achievement](http://educationresearchalliance.createsend1.com/t/r‑l-jrdlhkkt-l‑o/) for stu­dents who were affect­ed by these clo­sures. This study tries to bet­ter under­stand why these effects occurred by exam­in­ing the employ­ment out­comes of teach­ers at closed schools, includ­ing whether they returned to full-time teach­ing and how they were com­pen­sat­ed. Were the exit rates of teach­ers in schools that were closed because of low per­for­mance high­er than the exit rates of teach­ers in schools that remained open? What impact did school clo­sures have on the salaries of teach­ers who were dis­placed but con­tin­ued in the profession?