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Download full textKing, Dan L.; Taylor-King, Sheila – 2002
When consumers perceive a lessening in the value of any particular good or service provided by a free-market private enterprise, the likelihood of exit (that is, their choice of an alternative provider) is high. Parents of students enrolled in public schools, on the other hand, typically have not been able to choose an alternative service…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Competition, Economic Factors, Educational Economics
Washington, Joyce A. – 2001
This Preschool Parent Survey was designed to gather information on parents' perceptions of the Detroit Public School (DPS) preschool program and to assess the child care needs of parents of the district's preschool students. The 18-item questionnaire was mailed to the homes of 2,000 families in Detroit. Of the 2,000 surveys, 640 were completed and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Day Care, Educational Quality, Employed Parents
Plucker, Jonathan A.; Spradlin, Terry E.; Zapf, Jason S.; Chien, Rosanne W. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2007
The 2006 Public Opinion Survey on Education in Indiana gauged the attitudes and perceptions of a representative sample of Hoosiers on such key educational issues as kindergarten and pre-kindergarten programs, No Child Left Behind and P.L. 221, school funding and taxes, teacher quality, school choice and charter schools, and the achievement gap in…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Salpini, Susan – 1998
Charter schools are defined by North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) as "a public school operated by a group of parents, teachers, and/or community members as a semi-autonomous school of choice within a school district, operating under a 'charter' with the State Board of Education." Since most charter schools do not have…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Sources
Shardlow, Ben; Shelton, Ellen – Wilder Research, 2004
During the 2001-02 school year, the Cargill Foundation and Minnesota Humanities Commission invited elementary schools and preschools in Minneapolis and its suburbs to apply for three-year grant funding to introduce the Core Knowledge curriculum in their schools. In the first year of implementation, the different contexts of the six participating…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum, Preschool Curriculum, Curriculum Implementation
Scheffel, Debora L. – 2002
This report discusses the outcomes of a study that surveyed charter school principals and special education directors in Colorado to determine their attitudes about charter school services for students with special needs, to determine how charter schools fund special education services, and to create a data-based foundation for making…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities
Gau, Rebecca – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2006
This report presents findings from a national examination of the organizations that sponsor, oversee and hold accountable U.S. charter schools. Its primary aim is to describe and characterize these crucial but little known organizations: What do they look like? How big are they? How do they go about their work? The results of this inquiry is a new…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Charter Schools, Accountability, Classification
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 2002
This report presents the findings and recommendations from a study of school district and charter school participation in the Texas Virtual School Pilot (VSP). The report also provides an overview of the activities of the charter schools and districts that participated in the first year of the pilot program. This information includes descriptions…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Charter Schools, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2006
This report offers a comprehensive account of Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's sponsorship policies and practices, including a history of its sponsorship efforts, as well as individual profiles of all Fordham-sponsored schools in Ohio. Included in the profiles are in-depth descriptions of each school's educational program, school philosophy, and…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Academic Achievement, Profiles, Financial Support
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 2001
This document contains results for 1999-2000 for North Carolina state testing programs. The Grade 3 pretest is a multiple-choice reading and mathematics test administered to students in the first 3 weeks of grade 3. This pretest was administered to more than 102,000 students in the 1999-2000 school year. Results showed that 69.8% of students…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Biology, Charter Schools
Maucieri, Lawrence; Gernand, Renee; Patelis, Thanos – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
The Guidance Services and Research and Development Departments of the College Board coordinated an investigation of the results of a national high school survey. This survey, administered in 2000, follows a similar, large-scale survey of high schools in 1993 by the College Board. The current research report is designed to provide the reader with…
Descriptors: National Surveys, High Schools, High School Students, Trend Analysis
Dearhammer, Nancy E. – Online Submission, 2002
The purpose of this study was to assess the presence and/or implementation of Special Education activities within charter schools by questioning principals about the presence of children with disabilities in their schools, types of services provided in the charter schools, and the beliefs and attitudes of the principals regarding Special Education…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Disabilities, Related Services (Special Education), Special Needs Students
Czaja, Marion D.; Belcher, Sandi – 1999
This report describes and evaluates the Raven School, a charter school established in 1998 to serve adjudicated youths ages 16 to 18. The school is administered by the Gulf Coast Trades Center, a private nonprofit organization located in the Sam Houston National Forest in rural Texas. In addition to academics and GED preparation, other program…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Cooperation, High Risk Students, High School Equivalency Programs
Alaska State Dept. of Education and Early Development, Juneau. – 2001
This handbook provides guidelines for the operation of local special education programs for Alaskan children with disabilities. It addresses: (1) the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1997 and basic concepts of special education; (2) identification of students with disabilities, referral, screening programs, and…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Assistive Technology, Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal)
Zimmer, Ron; Buddin, Richard; Chau, Derrick; Gill, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Hamilton, Laura; Krop, Cathy; McCaffrey, Dan; Sandler, Melinda; Brewer, Dominic – 2003
This book contains a report of a study commissioned by the California Legislature to examine charter schools in the state. The study considered the following four questions: (1) What population of students attends charter schools? (2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Accountability, Administrator Characteristics
