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ERIC Number: ED504528
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2002-Jan-23
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Choice Schools Enroll Fewer K4 Students. Research Brief. Volume 90, Number 1
Public Policy Forum
For the first time since the expansion of the choice program to include religious schools in 1998-1999, fewer K4 students are receiving vouchers than in the previous year. This decrease accompanies the first year of implementation of the Milwaukee Public Schools' (MPS) Neighborhood Schools Initiative, which added full-day K4 to 27 MPS neighborhood schools, bringing the total number of MPS schools offering K4 to 117. Although the data cannot conclusively indicate that parents are choosing MPS over vouchers, reported findings of growth in the program's twelfth year include: (1) Total choice enrollment increased by 12% to 10,131 students, the highest enrollment in program history; (2) Choice enrollment grew at all grade levels except K4; (3) Although more schools are participating than ever before, choice enrollment is concentrated in a few schools; (4) Two choice schools opened for the first time in 2001-2002, joining 21 other schools that have opened since the choice program expanded in 1998; (5) There are 76 religious choice schools and 30 secular choice schools; (6) Transportation is provided by 48 choice schools overall, yet only a handful of the schools on the south side provide transportation; and (7) Fifty-three choice schools are hyper-segregated, enrolling either 90% or more minority students or 90% or more white students. (Contains 2 tables.) [Additional support for this research was provided by: the Faye McBeath, the Richard and Ethel Herzfeld, and the Halbert and Alice Kadish Foundations of Milwaukee.]
Public Policy Forum. 633 West Wisconsin Avenue Suite 406, Milwaukee, WI 53203. Tel: 414-276-8240; Fax: 414-276-9962; e-mail: forum@publicpolicyforum.org; Web site: http://www.publicpolicyforum.org
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serial; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Grade 1; Grade 2; Grade 3; Grade 4; Kindergarten
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Joyce Foundation
Authoring Institution: Public Policy Forum
Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A