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Martha Bradley Dorsey; Ian Kingsbury – Journal of School Choice, 2024
States vary widely in their approaches to charter school regulation. We administered online surveys to charter school leaders in four of the most stringently regulated states and three of the least stringently regulated states to examine how their approach might influence perceived school goals and levels of goal agreement. Generally, survey…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Choice, Charter Schools, School Administration
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Deeth Ellis; Keith Curry Lance – Grantee Submission, 2024
It has only recently become possible to assess librarian staffing at school level, due to the long interval between the two most recent datasets from NCES's periodic sample survey of schools. In 2023, the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) released long-awaited 2020-21 school-level data--the first from that survey since 2015-16. These…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Public Schools, Employment Patterns
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Jody Agius Vallejo; Blanca Ramirez – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This research examines Latino economic elites in Los Angeles who engage in "ethnoracial philanthropy" -- giving to or creating ethnic-centric organisations that focus on alleviating socioeconomic inequalities. We draw on 65 in-depth interviews to provide insights into the ethnoracial educational structures created by Latino elites to…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Social Class, Private Financial Support, Ethnicity
Brenda Elizabeth Doucette – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advocates of charter schools hold that the marketization of education compels all schools to be innovative in raising student achievement outcomes. Opponents of charter schools dispute whether the impact of charter schools on student achievement is statistically sufficient to justify taking resources from traditional public schools. Another…
Descriptors: Money Management, Charter Schools, Student Recruitment, Costs
Porscha Penn-Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Lacking a union and having a lower salary rating than most of the nation's states, North Carolina has had an increased number of teacher vacancies over the past decade. The problem addressed by this study was the lack of retention of qualified K-6 teachers across the state of North Carolina. The purpose of this qualitative narrative inquiry study…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Teacher Transfer, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Karen E. Johnson; Whitney Thurman; Ashwini Hoskote; Angela Preston; Lynn Rew; Erin D. Maughan – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
School nurses represent cost-effective investments in students' health and educational success. Alternative high schools (AHSs) serve an understudied population of youth who are at risk for school dropout and face numerous social inequities, heightening their risk for poor health outcomes. In this two-phase explanatory sequential mixed methods…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Nontraditional Education, At Risk Students, Child Health
Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2024
On April 2, the Milwaukee Public Schools will ask Milwaukee voters to allow the district to exceed state revenue limits by up to $252 million over four years to support its schools and programs. Here, we give our impartial take on the referendum, based on more than a decade of annual reviews of MPS' budget and finances. Our intent is to frame for…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Taxes, Politics of Education, State Aid
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Matthew Fifolt; D. Keith Gurley; Dwayne White – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
Our research team explored a political campaign that targeted the Magic City Acceptance Academy (MCAA) as the 'first transgender public school in the South'. Located near Birmingham, Alabama, MCAA opened in fall 2021 as one of the first LGBTQ + affirming charter schools in the United States. In spring 2022, gubernatorial candidate Tim James…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Charter Schools, Sexual Identity, Public Schools
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David Grant; Claude Messan Setodji; Gerald P. Hunter; Melissa Kay Diliberti; Heather L. Schwartz – RAND Corporation, 2024
The American School District Panel (ASDP) is a nationally representative set of more than 1,000 school district leaders who agree to take surveys over time. RAND recruits ASDP members using probabilistic sampling methods, which allow researchers to weight survey results to generalize to the national population of school districts and charter…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Administrator Surveys, School Surveys, National Surveys
Alexander Charles Rausch – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This non-experimental correlational quantitative research study was conducted to examine the relationship between the percentage of voluntary live synchronous virtual lesson attendance (LVLA) and the reading comprehension skill growth of sixth through eighth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) students enrolled in a Pennsylvania full-time online…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Reading Comprehension, Grade 6
Faqiang Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in Industrial Organization. In Chapter 1, I discuss a central question of the policy debate on public education: how to get more for less. Charter schools have been a tool in this arena to pressure traditional public schools to improve or lose students to them. Moreover, charter schools…
Descriptors: Industry, Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Access to Education
CindyJo Fryer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the implementation of classical education in a non-classical charter high school, with a focus on science education using classical methodologies. Employing techniques like copy work, history-based science teaching (HBST), the Socratic method, and the Progymnastmata, astronomy, and chemistry were taught. To identify…
Descriptors: Science Education, Conventional Instruction, Charter Schools, High Schools
Stéphane Lavertu – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
For too long, Ohio underfunded its public charter schools. That policy was unfair to charter school students--many economically disadvantaged--whose educations received less taxpayer support simply by virtue of their choice of schools. It was also unfair to charter schools, which were required to serve children on fewer dollars than the districts…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, High Achievement, Charter Schools, State Aid
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing held to examine the benefits of charter schools for students and families. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Aaron Bean, Chairman, Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education; and (2) Honorable Suzanne Bonamici, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Early Childhood,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Electronic Learning
Indiana Department of Education, 2024
The 2023-2024 Indiana Assessments Policy Manual communicates established guidelines regarding appropriate test administration in Indiana for key stakeholders including educators and Test Coordinators. This document contains policy guidance and appendices that delineate specific aspects of test implementation, including test security protocol,…
Descriptors: Testing, Guidelines, Educational Policy, Standardized Tests
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