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Chisesi, Lawrence J. – Journal of School Choice, 2015
I study how competition played out between elementary schools in a Colorado school district. When the school board approved new schools without catchments, schools faced with declining catchment populations responded. Some schools adapted by altering programming away from the standard district curriculum. I model a school's success in recruiting…
Descriptors: Competition, Elementary Schools, School Districts, School Choice
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Grigg, Jeffrey; Borman, Geoffrey D. – Journal of School Choice, 2014
Despite the prevalence of charter schools in the United States, few experimental studies evaluate the impact of charter school attendance on students in the early elementary grades. Using data from a randomized lottery in which kindergarten students and their parents applied to two oversubscribed and well-established charter schools in Denver,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Scores
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Pearson, Timothy; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Colomer, Soria E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Public schools in some areas of the U.S. are as segregated as they were prior to court-ordered busing, in part due to school choice policies that appear to exacerbate extant segregation. In particular, Latina/o students are increasingly isolated in schools characterized as being in cycles of decline. Our case study of one such school is based on a…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Choice, Public Schools, Hispanic American Students
Johnson, Jean – Public Agenda, 2013
Over the past 15 years, federal, state, and local officials have pursued a broad range of reforms aimed at ensuring that the nation's public school system is more accountable--that it delivers a rich, full education for children in communities across the country. New research from the Kettering Foundation and Public Agenda suggests that there are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Schools, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NJ1), 2009
This report provides essential new information on the relationship between the location of and enrollment in Denver public schools that meet the 2009 School Performance Framework (SPF) standards. Funded by the National Association of Charter School authorizers (NACSA), this research is designed primarily to identify and highlight those areas with…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, School Location, Enrollment
Zimmer, Ron; Gill, Brian; Razquin; Booker, Kevin; Lockwood, J. R., III – US Department of Education, 2007
This report presents findings about the relationship between participation in the Title I school choice and supplemental educational services options and student achievement from the National Longitudinal Study of "No Child Left Behind" (NLS-"NCLB"). A key component of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001"…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, School Choice, Supplementary Education