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Sude, Yujie; Wolf, Patrick J. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Private school choice policies have been enacted and expanded across the United States since the 1990s. By January 2021, 30 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico hosted 67 distinct private school choice policies. Why have some states adopted and expanded this education reform while others have demurred? Which states are more likely…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Educational Policy, State Policy
Welsh, Sally – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2022
This article analyses the narratives and counter-narratives which characterised the struggle between the Chicago Public School Board (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers' Union (CTU) preceding the 2019 Chicago teachers' strike. This was an extraordinary event which has received little scholarly attention. The paper explores the types and uses of the…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Unions, Politics of Education, Strikes
Domínguez-Fret, Nancy; Oberto, Ellen Evans – Bilingual Research Journal, 2022
In Chicago Public Schools (CPS), Spanish Dual Language (DL) programs are caught up in a school choice paradigm, marketed by schools as special features by which to lure prospective families. Out of concern that this approach does not position schools to serve the full breadth of Latina/o/x students, who possess the social, cultural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Critical Race Theory, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Westberg, Johannes; Larsson, Esbjörn – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
This article analyzes how childcare vouchers were introduced in the context of the Swedish welfare state by examining vital political decisions from the prohibition of publicly funded private preschools in 1984 and onwards. Basing our argument on theories of political institutions and historical institutionalism, we argue that this remarkable…
Descriptors: Child Care, Decision Making, Preschools, Foreign Countries
Denice, Patrick – Sociology of Education, 2022
How are patterns of segregation related to families' engagement in public-school choice policies across U.S. metropolitan areas? This article examines how segregation in urban public schools and the spatial mismatch between school-age children and relatively high-performing schools relate to the shares of Black, Hispanic, and White students…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Racial Segregation, Human Geography
Divina Padre Browne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the degree to which school choice was related to the academic achievement of Texas high school students. Schools of choice were compared to neighborhood high schools in terms of their students' passing rates in the standardized End-of-Course (EOC) exams in English I and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Neighborhood Schools, Academic Achievement, Differences
Maria Menegaki – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper addresses aspects of alternative proposals taking place in the public education system, based on an anthropological, ethnographic, comparative study of alternative schools and educational projects in Catalonia. More specifically, it first explores educational change in Catalonia through time and on the present, with a special focus on…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Change, Cultural Differences, School Choice
EdChoice, 2023
Researchers from across the country have published at least 187 empirical studies on the effectiveness of private school choice programs. The "EdChoice Study Guide" is an annually updated guide to the available research on private school choice programs in America. In this guide, one can learn what the body of rigorous research says…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Tests, Scores
Debs, Mira; Cheung, Hoi Shan – Comparative Education, 2021
Parents around the globe are increasingly understood to contribute to educational inequality through their choice of schools. This important critique risks minimising the way choice systems may favour certain parents over others. A case study of Singapore and its primary school enrolment process helps illustrate how parent's interactions with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, School Choice, Discourse Analysis, News Reporting
DeAngelis, Corey A. – Journal of School Choice, 2021
I calculate the cost-effectiveness of private schools participating in school voucher programs, independent charter schools, and district-authorized charter schools, compared to traditional public schools in Wisconsin for the 2017-18 school year. I calculate cost-effectiveness by dividing the Accountability Report Card score for each school by the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Accountability, School Choice
Murshed, Rubaiya; Uddin, Mohammad Riaz – Journal of School Choice, 2021
What drives parents to decide to send their children to a particular type or stream of schooling over another? Existing literature suggests that parents take several factors into account while making their children's school choice: the academic reputation of the school, the distance between the child's home and school, a stronger focus on…
Descriptors: School Choice, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Decision Making
EdChoice, 2021
This annual publication of "The ABCs of School Choice" is a comprehensive, data-rich guide to every private school choice program in America. This edition of "The ABCs of School Choice" defines each of the four types of school choice: education savings accounts, vouchers, tax-credit scholarships and individual tax credits and…
Descriptors: Guides, School Choice, Private Schools, Educational Vouchers
McShane, Michael Q. – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
In education policy, conservatives have often been more identifiable by what they are against than what they are for. Ronald Reagan ran in 1980 promising to eliminate the Department of Education, and since then, numerous conservative politicians have stated they wish to do the same. At times, conservatives have been known to support school choice…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Political Attitudes, Policy Formation, School Choice
Education Commission of the States, 2021
Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are private savings accounts funded by a deposit from the state government and managed by a parent. The deposit amount varies from state to state and is typically based on the state's per-pupil amount. To use an ESA, parents withdraw their child from the public school system and use ESA funds to purchase specified…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Money Management, Educational Finance
Candice Marie Vance – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The responsibility to make a free appropriate public education available to all students with disabilities applies to ALL public schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Charter schools are public schools; therefore, they bear the same responsibility. Who is actually responsible for ensuring that special education…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Charter Schools, Decision Making, School Districts