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Sampson, Carrie; Garcia, David R.; Hom, Matthew O.; Bertrand, Melanie – Peabody Journal of Education, 2022
Despite receiving little academic attention, open enrollment has the greatest potential among school choice policies to transform the governance of local school districts because all student transfers occur within the public school system, meaning that families and governance structures in two (or more) school districts are impacted by…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, School Choice, Educational Policy, Governance
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Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell – Peabody Journal of Education, 2020
In severing the link between residential address and school assignment, school choice policies have the potential to decrease school segregation and increase educational equity. Yet this promise is undermined when school choice creates greater opportunity for those who are already privileged while limiting access to students from historically…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, Access to Education, Equal Education, School Choice
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Witte, John F.; Schlomer, Paul A.; Shober, Arnold F. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
The question that drives this article is why some school districts decide to open up charter schools and others do not. Several answers are plausible: (a) entrepreneurial initiative, (b) structural explanations, and (c) spatial competition. We use data for the state of Wisconsin derived from extensive case studies of 19 charter schools and…
Descriptors: Competition, School Districts, Open Enrollment, Charter Schools