The earth-shaking overhaul of New Orleans education after Hurricane Katrina has not fixed one of the city’s enduring problems: public school segregation. That’s according to a study Tulane’s Education Research Alliance for New Orleans released Tuesday (April 4).

“New Orleans schools were highly segregated prior to the city’s school reforms, especially in terms of race and income, and remain segregated now,” the authors wrote.

The changes include the state takeover of more than 100 campuses and their reinvention into independently run charters, as well as the end of automatically assigning children to schools near their homes.

The report does not detail why the problem has persisted or offer large-scale recommendations…

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