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Allender, Sara; Estacion, Angela; Nabors, Amanda – Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2017
In 2007, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned WestEd to develop a guide on using quality authorizing to promote high-quality charter schools. At the time, notions about how authorizers could contribute to the existence of such schools were in their infancy, and the publication, which profiles the oversight practices of eight selected…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Equal Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Archbald, Doug; Hurwitz, Andrew; Hurwitz, Felicia – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
In 1975, a court-ordered busing program was launched to desegregate the schools of New Castle County, Delaware. It was by many accounts one of the most significant and successful desegregation programs in the nation (Armor & Rossell, 2002; Orfield, 2014; Raffel, 1980). In 1995, the districts of the county were declared "unitary" and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Parent Participation, School Segregation
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Betts, Julian R.; Tang, Y. Emily – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Charter schools represent an increasingly important form of school choice in the United States. Charter schools are public schools, with a difference. Compared to traditional public schools, they are exempted from some of the state laws and regulations that govern traditional public schools. In this way, parents come to have a greater number of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Methods, Meta Analysis, Value Added Models