The Edu­ca­tion Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA-New Orleans) has released find­ings from 17 stud­ies since its incep­tion in 2013. Through these stud­ies and dozens more near­ing com­ple­tion, we have estab­lished sev­er­al key insights about the post-Kat­ri­na school reforms’ effects. In this brown bag, we will con­sid­er the emerg­ing ​“big pic­ture” and the impli­ca­tions for New Orleans and beyond: How well is the sys­tem work­ing over­all? How are var­i­ous pieces of the sys­tem work­ing? Have there been unin­tend­ed con­se­quences? How can the sys­tem be made to work bet­ter? While this pre­sen­ta­tion will not focus on a sin­gle study like most Brown Bags, we hope that atten­dees will still offer feed­back on and con­tribute to the con­ver­sa­tion about key find­ings from four years of ERA-New Orleans research.