Educational Inequities in the New Orleans Charter School System

"Educational Inequities in the New Orleans Charter School System" is an infographic from SCOPE and the Schott Foundation that graphically summarizes the equity impact on students and schools of New Orleans becoming a predominantly charter district after Hurricane Katrina.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city of New Orleans, costing lives, destroying property, and displacing many people, most of them low-income people of color. Following this tragedy, the state of Louisiana combined with the Recovery School District (RSD, created in 2003 before Katrina) to take an entirely different approach to education.

The infographic is based on a SCOPE study, “Whose Choice, Student Experiences and Outcomes in the New Orleans School Marketplace”. New Orleans which is distinctive in that it has not only adopted the portfolio district approach, but has moved to a system that is comprised nearly entirely of charter schools.