The State of Public Schools in Post‐Katrina: New Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Equal Opportunity
May 15, 2010
A Report by the Institute on Race and Poverty, at the University of Minnesota Law School*
Charter schools in New Orleans have been hailed as the silver lining to Hurricane Katrina...This report evaluates how this experiment has fared in providing quality education to all students of the public school system regardless of race, socioeconomic class, or where they live in New Orleans metropolitan area.
The reorganization of the city’s schools has created a separate but unequal tiered system of schools that steers a minority of students, including virtually all of the city’s white students, into a set of selective, higher‐performing schools and another group, including most of the city’s students of color, into a group of lower‐performing schools....
http://www.irpumn.org/uls/resources/projects/NEW_ORLEANS_FULL_REPORT.pdf***Summary of Executive Summary****
* Public schools in the New Orleans metro continue to be racially and economically segregated despite
the school reforms introduced post‐Katrina.
* Racial segregation is highly correlated with income segregation in the New Orleans metro.
* The “tiered” system of public schools (= traditional public schools & charters) in the metro creates a tiered performance hierarchy and sorts white students and a minority of students of color into higher performing schools while restricting the majority of low income students of color into lower performing schools.
* "Skimming" of easy-to-educate students through various means much in evidence
* Little difference between traditional schools & charters working with the same populations
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