Crescent City Schools is a Charter Management Organization (CMO) based in New Orleans, Louisiana and founded by educators Kate Mehok and Julie Lause. Both were honored by the New Schools Venture Fund in 2013 as Entrepreneurs to Watch for their contributions to public education. Crescent City Schools is part of a movement in New Orleans to transform one of the worst school systems in the country. In the fall of 2010, Crescent City Schools received a Type 5 charter from the state of Louisiana to transform a failing school in New Orleans. In February 2011, Crescent City Schools was assigned to Harriet Tubman, a K-8 school in Orleans Parish, and assumed operations there on July 1, 2011. In 2012, the organization was awarded the expanded charter for Akili Academy of New Orleans and the charter