id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt RefID-513-osborne2020reinventing Osborne,David Reinventing the New Orleans Public Education System 2020 .txt text/plain 146 6 58 Over the next nine years, the RSD gradually turned them all into charter schools--a new form of public school that has emerged over the past quarter century. Charters are public schools operated by independent, mostly nonprofit organizations, free of most state and district rules but held accountable for performance by written charters, which function like performance contracts. cache/RefID-513-osborne2020reinventing.txt txt/RefID-513-osborne2020reinventing.txt