Dr. Amanda Lu is a Faculty Director and Assistant Teaching Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Her research agenda focuses on the pragmatic and lived complexities of highly privatized and decentralized urban school districts. She has examined these conditions through the implementation of large-scale learning initiatives, district budgeting and contract processes, and school governance issues in choice-heavy contexts. Her research has been funded by the NaEd/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Stanford Graduate Fellowship, the Institute of Education Sciences Training Grant, and the Center for Reinventing Public Education.
Her articles have been published in outlets such Teacher’s College Record, Urban Education, Education Finance and Policy, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Theory and Research in Education. Before academia, she was a math teacher and college counselor at Edna Karr High School, the pride of New Orleans’ West Bank.
