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Peña, Anthony – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2023
Providing opportunities for youth who have been 'pushed out' of traditional schools to re-engage is an issue of social justice. The lack of equitable learning opportunities in the traditional science classroom is a contributing factor to youth being pushed out. Alternative education programs have the potential to support youth who have been…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education, Charter Schools
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Miriam Simone Leshin – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Opportunities for students to share their thinking with the class--which I refer to as "work-sharing practices--require a profound shift in who is positioned with intellectual authority in mathematics classrooms. This study explores work-sharing practices in one sixth grade mathematics classroom through an interactional lens. Video analysis…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction, Video Technology, Teacher Student Relationship
Veney, Debbie; Jacobs, Drew – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
"Voting with Their Feet: A State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends" shows hundreds of thousands of families switched to charter schools during the first full school year of the pandemic. During the 2020-21 school year, charter school enrollment grew 7%, the largest increase in half a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts
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Heather Rose; Danielle Huddlestun; Jacob Hibel; Susan E. Ebeler; Kali Trzesniewski – Journal of School Choice, 2024
Using data on incoming freshmen from 2018-2020 at the University of California, Davis, we analyze whether California students from private or charter high schools, compared to students from traditional public schools, arrive at college with a higher sense of expected belonging, more positive feelings, or higher expectations about adopting positive…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Choice, Sense of Community, College Freshmen
Wallace, Burke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the American school system into various forms of distance learning, remote learning schools were a small but growing segment of the educational system within the United States. This causal-comparative quantitative study examined demographic variables to assess differences in K-12 teachers' views of their…
Descriptors: Leadership, Virtual Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes
Ruben Diaz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how charter school administrators describe their leadership preparation in the areas of moral, instructional, managerial, social and political dimensions during their first five years in an independent charter school administrative position in Southern California. Greenfield's (1995)…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Administration, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes
Mumma, Kirsten Slungaard; West, Martin R. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
In 1992, California became the second state in the nation to adopt a charter school law. California now leads the nation in both number of charter schools and charter school enrollment, with more than 1,200 charter schools serving 620,000 students in the 2017-18 school year. California is also home to more charter school authorizers than any other…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Governance, School Administration, Administrative Organization
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Diehl, David; Marx, Robert – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background/Context: Research on the patterns of philanthropic funding of charter schools has largely focused on the behavior of major foundations. This work has documented how the once diffuse giving by these major foundations has become increasingly concentrated on a small number of jurisdictional challengers in the form of charter schools,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Private Financial Support, Philanthropic Foundations, Grants
Seth-Parmar, Rashi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in California were forced to shut their doors to students and staff during spring semester 2020. The school closures forced teachers to migrate their lessons to online platforms and forced students to learn using various online modalities. Students no longer had the traditional access to their teachers,…
Descriptors: Socialization, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Gulosino, Charisse; Liebert, Jonah – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
To date, there is a paucity of research that examines differences between charter schools that operate in suburban and nonsuburban contexts. This article examines whether students in suburban charter schools perform better or worse than their counterparts in traditional public schools or students in urban charter schools. Boasting the largest and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools
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Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Bartlett, Maria; Coen, Thomas; Gleason, Phil – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Recent studies of charter school effectiveness have questioned whether charter school networks can produce a lasting impact on students' long-term outcomes. Our study is the first to examine this issue at the network of Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools, which primarily serve disadvantaged students of color and constitute the nation's…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Disadvantaged Youth, Charter Schools, Program Effectiveness
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2023
The Department of Education Charter Schools Program (CSP) provides grants to open or expand charter schools. Enrollment in charter schools that received CSP grants grew from 213,576 to 1,380,530 students from school years 2006-07 to 2020-21. This report examines (1) enrollment growth at new charter schools that received CSP grants compared to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Enrollment Trends
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Lake, Robin; Cobb, Trey; Sharma, Roohi; Opalka, Alice – Education Next, 2018
In this article, the authors study charter growth in a single region as a case study: the Bay Area, which includes San Francisco and the cities, suburbs, and rural areas that surround it. California is one of the nation's leading charter school states, and charters have boomed in the Bay Area in particular. The area also is in the midst of a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Charter Schools, Enrollment, School Districts
Grover, Lisa S.; Quisenberry, Brooke – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2022
Finding funds to build and renovate facilities is a major hurdle for public charter schools because most state laws do not provide charter schools with the full amount of state and local funding that other public schools receive. Although an increasing number of states are passing laws to address charter school facility funding gaps, inequities…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, State Legislation, Educational Facilities
Jamie C. Taube – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research was motivated by the lack of diversity in undergraduate and graduate level physics in the United States. The qualitative study explores the experiences of six female students who enrolled in advanced physics at a suburban charter high school in southern California. Three rounds of semi-structured interviews were conducted using the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Females, Physics, Science Education
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