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Session Type: Roundtable Session
This panel examines how school choice policies shape governance, innovation, and the evolution of public school systems. Papers analyze national alternative school enrollment patterns, system reunification efforts and collaborative governance in New Orleans, policy alignment in school information provision, and the erosion of innovation within maturing charter sectors. Across diverse cases and methods, the panel interrogates the institutional, political, and informational dynamics that influence reform trajectories. Collectively, the papers highlight how policy design and system context mediate the promise and pitfalls of market-oriented reforms, offering insight into the conditions that foster durable innovation and educational equity.
Designing the Return: Collaborative Innovation and Governance Reform in New Orleans’ School Unification - Henderson Lewis Jr., Louisiana State University; Veysel Altunel, Louisiana State University; Stacy-Ann Campbell, Louisiana State University; Nicholas Bijou, Einstein Charter School
Evaluating the Alignment Between Research on School Information and School Choice Policy Provisions - Jason Saltmarsh, Old Dominion University; Bryan Mann, University of Kansas; Jackie Nikiema, Old Dominion University
When Innovation Dies: Temporal Isomorphism and the Failures of Charter School Reform - Juddson R. Taube, University of San Francisco
Alternative Schools in the Era of School Choice: National Trends in Enrollment Over Three Decades - Adam Kho, University of Kentucky; Shelby Leigh Smith, University of Southern California; Nicolas Pardo, University of Southern California; Sarah Rabovsky, Tennessee Department of Education