Going to Great Lengths: How Parents Chose Schools Before and After the Post-Katrina School Reforms

One of the key ele­ments of the New Orleans school mod­el is it pro­vides almost com­plete­ly open enroll­ment, giv­ing par­ents more options and pos­si­bly increas­ing com­pe­ti­tion among schools. Using data from 2004 and 2011, the Era te…