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Brock Hicks; Michael C. Lens – Education and Urban Society, 2025
The meteoric rise in charter schools has several implications for traditional public schools and their students. One understudied implication is the geographic competition for students. Given traditional public school boundaries are often fixed while charter school boundaries are more flexible, charter schools can draw students away from existing…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Competition
Dee, Thomas S. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Over the first two full school years under the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 enrollment in public schools fell dramatically (i.e., by more than 1.2 million students) with losses concentrated among the youngest students. Currently, little is known about where these students went and what learning environments they are experiencing. In this research note,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Student Mobility, Pandemics
Estimating Homeschool Participation in the U.S. -- What We Can Learn from the Household Pulse Survey
Genevieve Smith; Angela R. Watson – Journal of School Choice, 2024
We used data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey to examine homeschool participation at the national and state levels and compare it to participation estimates from other surveys. The Household Pulse Survey also provides demographic information about the survey respondents. Specifically, we examined respondent characteristics of…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Individual Characteristics, Public Schools, Private Schools
Cannistrà, M.; Agasisti, T.; Olivanti, F. – Journal of School Choice, 2023
Voucher policies represent a market mechanism to support school choice, with the expected effect of stimulating competition among schools and, in turn, positively benefiting the educational outcomes. As the only Italian region adopting this policy to free private/public school choice, Lombardy is the subject of this study. In particular, we aim at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Educational Vouchers, School Choice
Peace Bransberger – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2024
Postsecondary education leaders are eager for reliable data to strategically plan for the next year through the next decade, and WICHE's projections of high school graduates are among the most relied upon sources. As WICHE has reported several times since the pandemic began, the disruption to student populations was illustrated with the shift of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics
Rowe, Emma – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
In 2017, it was excitedly pronounced across major newspapers in Australia that public schools' share of student enrolment had increased, marking a "determined end to a 40-year decline". The claims were bolstered by numerical data, and an accompanied media release, issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These bold claims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Enrollment Rate, Educational Trends
Silva, Fernando Rodrigues; Pinto, António – European Journal of Educational Management, 2023
This article approaches secondary Vocational Education & Training (VET) in Portugal from a historical-educational perspective, namely the professional courses introduced in 2004 in public secondary schools. Its implementation aimed to obtain a qualified technical workforce and to fight against the high failure rate and school dropouts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Secondary School Students
Dee, Thomas S.; Huffaker, Elizabeth; Phillips, Cheryl; Sagara, Eric – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Before the 2020-2021 school year, policymakers and parents confronted the uncertain trade-offs implied by the health, educational, and economic consequences of offering instruction remotely, in person, or through a hybrid of the two. Most public schools in the United States chose remote-only instruction, and enrollment fell dramatically (i.e., a…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Pandemics, COVID-19, School Closing
Wonsun Ryu; Lauren Schudde; Kimberly Pack-Cosme – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Dual enrollment (DE)--where students earn college credits during high school--is expanding rapidly. To facilitate DE, institutional actors across K-12 schools and colleges must build or repurpose structures across separate organizations to determine course offerings, assignments, modality, and composition. Yet the organization and implications of…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, Public Schools, High School Students
Hinz, Serena E.; Lauf, Erich – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This Data Point examines postsecondary education enrollment rates overall and in occupational areas of study, among 2013 public high school graduates as of 2016. The report uses data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:2009), which initially surveyed a nationally representative sample of grade 9 students in 2009, with follow-up…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Enrollment Rate, High School Graduates, Grade 9
Lind, Mary Racansky – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There is a growing concern that public charter schools, as publicly funded entities, which are mandated to ensure FAPE [Free and Appropriate Public Education] and IDEA [Individuals with Disabilities Education Act], are lagging significantly behind public non-charter schools, when it comes to special education student enrollment. This potentially…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
Potter, Daniel; Alvear, Sandra; Bao, Katharine; Kennedy, Camila; Min, Jie – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
In a series of research briefs, the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) examines and describes the amount of student mobility in Texas with particular focus on Houston area public schools. This first research brief provides an overview of how many students move during the summer months. Changing schools impacts students' achievement,…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Student Promotion
Carlson, Deven – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2023
Thanks to rapid increases in the state's Hispanic and Asian populations, the number of Texas students classified as English Learners has surged in the past decade, from approximately 830,000 in 2010 to more than 1.1 million today. In the charter sector, change has been even more rapid. In 2010, 16 percent of charter students in Texas were…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
William T. Gormley; Sara Amadon; Katherine Magnuson; Amy Claessens; Douglas Hummel-Price – AERA Open, 2023
In this study, we used data from a cohort of 4,033 Tulsa kindergarten students to investigate the relationship between pre-K enrollment and later college enrollment. Specifically, we tested whether participation in the Tulsa Public Schools universal pre-K program and the Tulsa Community Action Project (CAP) Head Start program predicted enrollment…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Public Schools, Kindergarten
Potter, Daniel; Alvear, Sandra; Bao, Katharine; Min, Jie – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2019
Student mobility refers to students changing schools. In this series of research briefs, the Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) examines and describes the amount of student mobility in Texas, with particular focus on Houston area public schools. This second research brief focuses on providing an overview of how much mobility takes place…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education