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Brock Hicks; Michael C. Lens – Education and Urban Society, 2025
The meteoric rise in charter schools has several implications for traditional public schools and their students. One understudied implication is the geographic competition for students. Given traditional public school boundaries are often fixed while charter school boundaries are more flexible, charter schools can draw students away from existing…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Competition
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Rachel N. Weber; Federico R. Waitoller; Joshua M. Drucker – Urban Education, 2025
Informed by austerity politics, struggling school districts have closed buildings to pursue cost savings. We investigate the factors affecting which schools are shuttered, proposing that the share of students with an Individualized Education Program (SIEP) influences the way building utilization is measured because of the different instructional…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Elementary Schools, School Closing