To ensure that we deliver on our commitment to providing excellent public schools for every child in New Orleans, NSNO works to accelerate high-quality charter school development, build school support systems and maintain a reform-friendly environment. Every day, the city is coming closer to the goal of achieving high-quality educational choices for all families.
New Schools for New Orleans supports the expansion of high-performing charter schools as they grow to serve more students. As New Orleans strives to eliminate all academically unacceptable schools over the next 3-5 years, NSNO seeks true collaboration between schools, educators, parents, students and community.
As New Orleans charter school system works to bridge gaps and increase results for its students, building the skills of talent in the city is critical to success. NSNO works to recruit proven school support organizations to the city, invest or secure capital and collaborate to build citywide awareness and demand.
Over the last four years NSNO has focused on transforming the lowest performing schools in the city, schools with an average SPS of 44 out of 200. 100% of these schools have shown gains – an average of 10 points per year across 11 schools. We applaud the work of students, parents, and educators who have driven these outstanding academic gains.
New Schools for New Orleans’ (NSNO) mission — delivering on the promise of excellent public schools for every child in New Orleans — drives everything we do and every investment we make. Founded as a non-profit organization in 2006, NSNO makes strategic investments of time, expertise and funding to support the growth of New Orleans’ high-performing system of charter schools. Our commitment to developing schools and people, building school support programs, and maintaining a reform-friendly environment will not waver until high-quality educational choices are available to all families.
The RSD and NSNO will be executing application processes that award charter operators funds to develop new schools that are tied to the turning around of failing schools. Schools and charter management organizations (CMOs) can apply for one of four types of available funding to open a school at a turnaround site in the 2014-2015 school year.
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF) announced a new $25 million investment designed to help create and expand high-performing charter schools in New Orleans over the next five years for nearly 15,000 students currently attending low-performing schools. qualifications required.
In an effort to disseminate information about strategies utilized citywide from 2005-2011, New Schools for New Orleans has published a resource for other cities and districts planning a similar level of education reform.