ERA in the News: 20th Anniversary Katrina Coverage

September 24, 2025

Over these past months, our research and work have been featured in major outlets covering New Orleans schools 20 years after Hurricane Katrina. A few of these stories are highlighted in this article.

A few of these sto­ries are high­light­ed below. 

 — Local Press 

New Orleans schools were rad­i­cal­ly remade after Kat­ri­na. He want­ed to know: Did it work?, NOLA​.com — Patrick Wall 

Did the post-Kat­ri­na over­haul of New Orleans schools help stu­dents? Here’s what the data says, NOLA​.com — Marie Fazio 

NOLA-PS stu­dent suc­cess spiked in the years after Kat­ri­na, but has since slowed, report shows, FOX 8 Live — Chris Joseph 

Recov­ery to Restruc­ture | 20 Years Since Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na, WWL-TV — Leigha McNeil 

 — Nation­al Press 

CNN This Morn­ing with Audie Cor­nish — ERA’s Asso­ciate Direc­tor for Research, Jamie Car­roll, spoke about the post-Kat­ri­na reforms. Watch the full seg­ment here


​‘Nev­er seen before’: How Kat­ri­na set off an edu­ca­tion rev­o­lu­tion, Wash­ing­ton Post — Ian Birrell 

Edu­ca­tion Lessons from New Orleans, Two Decades After Kat­ri­na, FutureEd — Thomas Toch and Erik Robelen 

Edu­ca­tion Reform in the After­math of Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na, Ford­ham Insti­tute — Kam­ren Herring 

No Idea Too Rad­i­cal: Inside New Orleans’ Dra­mat­ic K‑12 Turn­around After Kat­ri­na, The 74 — Beth Hawkins 

We appre­ci­ate these pub­li­ca­tions for fea­tur­ing our research as the city reflects on 20 years since Kat­ri­na and its impact on education. 

20 years after Kat­ri­na, New Orleans schools are still ​‘a work in progress’, NPR — Aubri Juhasz