There is a fascinating, ongoing natural experiment related to education reform & school choice happening on the ground, right at this time. Consider the post-k

There is a fascinating, ongoing natural experiment related to education reform & school choice happening on the ground, right at this time. Consider the post-katrina education in New Orleans. Sarah Carr (reporter & author) does a good job of summarizing the landscape, which include wins, [1] and concerns [2] It started with the massive failure of education post-katrina. Public schools were left hollow, unable to restart. Entrenched interests simply walked away from their power bases. Career bureaucrats were left with students.. and not much else: No obvious way, or know-how, to re-start the assembly line of public education. Thus, said govt pragmatists were left no choice (and critically - faced no repercussions) , except to haphazardly adopt school choice as the education standard for the city. [1] https://www.econtalk.org/sarah-carr-on-charter-schools-educational-reform-and-hope-against-hope/ https://www.econtalk.org/sarah-carr-on-charter-schools-educa... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/how-strict-is-too-strict/382228/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/how-str...