The State of Public Education in New Orleans (SPENO) 2020

March 2020

For the past twelve years, the Cowen Institute has published the State of Public Education in New Orleans (SPENO) on a near annual basis. During that time, the purpose, content, and audience of the report have evolved. Initially, SPENO chronicled the dramatic changes to New Orleans’ public education system following Hurricane Katrina, with a lens of comparing governance and performance to the pre-reform years. In more recent years, SPENO has narrowed its scope. This edition of the report is a snapshot of public education in the current academic year using aggregated data from publicly available sources to inform a wide audience that includes educators, families, and students, as well as policymakers and the general public.An interactive digital version of this report is available at: https://cowendata.org/reports/the-state-of-public-education-in—new-orleans-2019