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Buras a1  \nIn conjunction with members of Urban South Grassroots Research Collective  \na Georgia State University  \nAbstract  \nLouisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, co-chair of the Senate Public Charter School Caucus in Washington, DC, hosted a forum for education policymakers. It centered on New Orleans-Style Education Reform: A Guide for Cities (Lessons Learned, 2004-2010), a report published by the charter school incubator New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO). Through human capital and charter school development, the report asserts, New Orleans has become a national leader in education reform. In this essay, members of Urban South Grassroots Research Collective, including education scholars and those affiliated with longstanding educational and cultural organizations in New Orleans, reveal that such reform has been destructive to African American students, teachers, and neighborhoods. Inspired by critical race theory and the role of experiential knowledge in challenging dominant narratives, authors draw heavily on testimony from community-based education groups, which have typically been ignored, regarding the inequitable effects of New Orleans’ school reform. While the Guide for Cities is used as a sounding board for concerns and critiques, this essay challenges claims that have circulated nationally since 2005—ones that laud New Orleans as a model to be followed. This essay also charts the elite policy network that has shaped the city’s reform, with NSNO playing a central part, in order to reveal the accumulative interests of education entrepreneurs. A postscript illustrating parent and student resistance to charter school reform in New Orleans reminds urban communities elsewhere that current reforms are not a guide but a threat to those struggling for racial and educational justice.  \nKeywords: urban education reform, educational policy, charter schools, alternative teacher recruitment, black education, New Orleans, Guide for Cities, New Schools for New Orleans, Urban South Grassroots Research Collective, grassroots resistance  \nIs education reform in New Orleans a model for urban school districts across the United States? Senator Mary Landrieu (Democrat–Louisiana) believes so. On March 1, 2012, Landrieu, co-chair of the Senate Public Charter School Caucus with Senator Lamar Alexander (Republican–Tennessee), hosted a forum for education policymakers in Washington, DC. The forum centered on a report entitled New Orleans-Style Education Reform: A Guide for Cities (Lessons Learned, 2004-2010), published by the charter  \n1 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dr. Kristen L. Buras, Educational Policy Studies, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3977, Atlanta, [Georgia 30302. Email: kburas@gsu.edu](Georgia 30302. Email: kburas@gsu.edu).  \nBerkeley Review of Education Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 123-160  \n124 Buras  \nschool incubator New Schools for New Orleans (Brinson, Boast, Hassel, & Kingsland, 2012) . Landrieu proclaimed:  \nWith its Guide for Cities, New Schools for New Orleans is d","cbCaiikV8s7xaEqm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiikV8s7xaEqm","pdf",629900,39,"English","# Abstract\n## New Orleans-style education reform\n## Role of NSNO and the policy network\n## Community testimony and critical race theory\n## Implications for cities pursuing similar reforms","[{\"question\":\"What forum and report does the abstract reference?\",\"answer\":\"The abstract describes a forum hosted by Senator Mary Landrieu on education policymaking, centered on a report titled New Orleans-Style Education Reform: A Guide for Cities (Lessons Learned, 2004-2010) published by NSNO.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the authors evaluate New Orleans-style reform?\",\"answer\":\"The authors argue the reform is destructive to African American students, teachers, and historically black neighborhoods, and they reject the idea that it should serve as a guide for other cities.\"},{\"question\":\"What evidence or perspective does the essay rely on to support its critique?\",\"answer\":\"It draws on critical race theory and experiential knowledge, with heavy use of testimony from community-based education groups that have often been ignored in dominant narratives.\"}]","New Orleans Education Reform: A Guide for Cities or a Warning for Communities? - Abstract | PDF",1792079728,98]