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How Do School Leaders Respond to Competition? Evidence From New Orleans

A policy brief and technical report of ERA-New Orleans' paper on school competition post-Katrina by Huriya Jabbar

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How Do School Leaders Respond to Competition? Evidence From New Orleans

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by Huriya Jabbar

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How Do School Leaders Respond to Competition? Evidence From New Orleans

This paper exam­ines New Orleans school lead­ers’ per­cep­tions of com­pe­ti­tion and their respons­es to it. This paper will focus on schools’ respons­es to com­pe­ti­tion rather than stu­dent out­comes in a way that can help pol­i­cy-mak­ers under­stand whether improv­ing edu­ca­tion is the auto­mat­ic response to com­pe­ti­tion in a school-choice envi­ron­ment, or whether schools, like com­peti­tors in oth­er mar­kets, have a range of strate­gies they employ in order to sur­vive. This study looks at how com­pe­ti­tion affects schools, a dynam­ic not cap­tured in stud­ies that have focused on stu­dent outcomes.

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