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Jessica A. Bowman; Yi-Chen Wu; Shawnee Wakeman; Gail Ghere; Holly Johnson – Journal of Special Education, 2024
Separate school placements persist for students with extensive support needs (ESN) despite longstanding federal mandates for all students with disabilities to be educated in the least restrictive environment. This study extends research on separate school placement for students with ESN to explore the potential impact of locale and charter school…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Students with Disabilities, Charter Schools, Geographic Location
Jameon DeSean Moss – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This multiple-bounded case study explored charter-school music teacher practitioners' (MTPs') and instructional leaders' (ILs') perceptions of professional development (PD) in four charter management organizations (CMOs). The purpose was to provide a rich description of these practitioners' professional development, with the goal of spurring…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Music Teachers, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes
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Andrew Eisenlohr; Kate Kennedy; Katrina E. Bulkley; Julie A. Marsh – Educational Policy, 2024
Advocates often predict that school choice policies will expand access to high-quality schools, particularly for marginalized communities. To interrogate this assumption, we employed a sequential mixed-methods analysis examining the state of charter reform in the District of Columbia. We observed that stakeholders consistently defined equity as…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Charter Schools, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Mike DeGuire – Network for Public Education, 2024
Since the early 2000s, billionaires have treated the Denver Public School District as a Neo-liberal education experiment. Using a tangled web of astroturf groups, nonprofits, and training organizations, billionaires have hijacked this public school district, leaving some schools, students, and democracy behind. In this report, Denver's Mike…
Descriptors: Public Education, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Jennifer Ervin – Critical Questions in Education, 2024
In this critical autoethnography, I reflect on my experience teaching in a KIPP charter school in an urban, racially diverse city in the southwestern U.S. Over the past few decades KIPP has gained both prestige and resentment as a major character in the charter school movement. Their focus on supporting students from underrepresented racial…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Katrina H. Brown-Aliffi – Arts Education Policy Review, 2024
The purpose of this exploratory multiple-case study was (1) to develop an understanding of how charter management organizations (CMOs) operating schools in New York City (NYC) during the 2021-2022 academic year developed, promoted, and sustained arts programming, and (2) to explore the role of the network-level arts director. Given the desire to…
Descriptors: Art Education, Charter Schools, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes
Lei Ping – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Student-centered teaching (SCT) has been the dominant education philosophy in the U.S. K-12 education. However, the definition and practice of SCT have been rooted in western education contexts. Since students in U.S. schools become more and more diverse, it remains unclear how SCT works for diverse learners. This research delved into the…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Charter Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Saya Alice Wai – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of high school alumni to understand how and when high school students perceive educator care. A growing body of research points to the importance of the perception of care for optimal student achievement to be attained in a high school setting. Participants of this study were surveyed,…
Descriptors: Alumni, Teacher Student Relationship, Caring, Student Experience
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Pineda – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010's, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used "No Excuses" practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact of charter schools by locality on college…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Practices, School Effectiveness
David N. Figlio; Cassandra Hart; Krzysztof Karbownik – Cato Institute, 2024
Charter schools have been growing in the United States and worldwide over the past two decades, and there is considerable interest in how they affect students remaining in traditional public schools (TPSs). Charter schools present important policy questions, as they often compete for the same students, educators, and resources as TPSs. This brief…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Competition, Public Schools, Traditional Schools
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Sohyun An Kim; Rebecca Gotlieb; Laura V. Rhinehart; Veronica Pedroza; Maryanne Wolf – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a powerful predictor of reading fluency, and many digitized dyslexia screeners include RAN as an essential component. However, the validity of digitized RAN has not been established. Using a sample of 174 second-graders, this study tested (1) the comparability between paper and digitized versions of RAN and (2)…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools, Elementary School Students
De Vondalyn Hughes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The number of charter schools in operation has steadily increased over the years, particularly in the state of Florida. In Florida, independently run charter schools experience closures or mandated control from Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) for several reasons; therefore, the purpose of this study is to iterate how alternative methods of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness
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Douglas N. Harris; Valentina Martinez-Pabon – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
We describe the levels, trends, and patterns of school closure and restructuring in the United States from 1991 to 2019 across all sectors using a near census of K-12 schools. Focusing on the years with the best available data, 2014-18, we find that the annual closure rate of charter, private, and traditional public schools (TPSs) were 5.1, 2.9,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Restructuring, School Closing, Charter Schools
Jennifer Coco – Center for Learner Equity, 2024
In September 2022, CLE began a multi-phase study on the feasibility of creating a centralization entity (Educational Service Agency) to coordinate special education across New Orleans' decentralized system of autonomous charter schools. This executive summary of the study examines the interests and concerns of the New Orleans school community and…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Related Services (Special Education), Public Schools
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Jed Wallace – Education Next, 2024
Driving across tracts of new-home development in El Paso, Texas, one can't miss the signs of charter-school momentum. Charter-school enrollment has been growing in Texas for years, but in many localities and even at the state level, charter schools had until recently encountered harsher treatment from policymakers than what advocates have…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Barriers, Legislators, Municipalities
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