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Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Singer, Jeremy; Stokes, Kimberly; Mahowald, James Bear; Khawaja, Sahar – Harvard Educational Review, 2022
This essay combines an ecological perspective with a mobility justice theoretical framework to reconceptualize the relationship between school transportation and educational access. Authors Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, Kimberly Stokes, James Bear Mahowald, and Sahar Khawaja document the problem of "getting to school" that is at…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Student Transportation, Social Justice, Access to Education
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Gross, Bethany – Education Next, 2019
In 2017, Matthew Chingos and Kristin Blagg of the Urban Institute convened a group of researchers to analyze students' school choices and travel to school in five cities-- Denver, Detroit, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, D.C.--where families are able to select from among many charter and district schools. The team found that a large number…
Descriptors: School Choice, Student Transportation, Urban Schools, Equal Education
Degrow, Ben – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2019
In Michigan's lower-income urban communities, where educational options are most heavily in demand, accessing the most suitable and desired schools is often limited by the availability and affordability of convenient transportation. Michigan could support low-income families' efforts to transport their children to better schools and boost these…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Access to Education, Family Programs, School Choice