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How Equitable Are New Orleans Schools? New Tool Has Some Answers

A new website compiled data on dozens of indicators to show how equitable schools in New Orleans are.
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A new website compiled data on dozens of indicators to show how equitable schools in New Orleans are.

When parents in New Orleans are deciding where to send their child to school, many of them use the letter grades schools get based on their student test scores.: 'A' for the schools with the highest scores, 'F' for those with the lowest.

But what about other factors: How equitable is the school? How experienced are its teachers? Are poor students getting the resources they need? And how equitable are New Orleans schools overall?

A new website called the New Orleans Education Equity Index seeks to help answer those questions. Nahlia Webber is executive director of the Orleans Public Education Network (OPEN), which helped create the index. The network held a panel on the new index Wednesday night at Propeller.

Support for WWNO's Education Desk comes from Entergy Corporation.

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Jess Clark is WWNO's Education Desk reporter. Jess comes to the station after two years as Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting for (Chapel Hill). Her reporting has aired on national programs, including NPR's All Things Considered, Here & Now from WBUR, and NPR's Weekend Edition.