Huriya Jabbar

Research Associate, Education Research Alliance for New Orleans

Huriya Jabbar is an assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin in education policy, and a research associate at Era-New Orleans. She studies the social and political dimensions of market-based reforms in education, including school choice and incentive pay, and how research on such reforms is used by policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels. Recently, she has been examining school choice and competition in New Orleans. Her PhD is from the University of California, Berkeley in Education Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation.