The parents of students from public schools can choose to enroll their children in most schools in the district .
the New Orleans Public Schools system was engaged in reforms aimed at decentralizing power away from the pre-Katrina school-board central bureaucracy to individual school principals and to charter-school boards , monitoring charter-school performance by granting renewable , five-year operating contracts permitting the closure of those not succeeding , and vesting choice in parents of public-school students , allowing them to enroll their children in almost any school in the district .
Charter school