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Douglas N. Harris; Matthew F. Larsen – Education Next, 2024
In this article, the authors study family preferences in one of the most competitive school markets ever developed in the United States: New Orleans, where virtually all district students attend a charter school. The vast majority provide transportation from anywhere in the city, and none can charge tuition. Admission is based on parental…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Family Income
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Chelsea Hull; Connely Leis – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2024
All parents of deaf or hard of hearing children face challenges as they strive to provide an environment rich in language for their child. For parents on active duty in the military, however, perhaps this challenge is most acute. Faced with decisions about their child's medical or educational needs, military families must act despite geographic…
Descriptors: School Choice, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Military Personnel
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Ee-Seul Yoon – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
This study examines the extent to which school choice in the Toronto Catholic District School Board impacts equity and segregation. This examination is important because full public funding for the Board should adhere to the goals of public education, namely, equity and inclusion of all students. A critical policy geography perspective is applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Equal Education, School Choice
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Wanru Xu; Bram Spruyt – Educational Review, 2024
In recent years, Innovative Schools in Dali have received increasing coverage in Chinese social media and have also attracted middle-class parents from cities, as viable bottom-up educational initiatives. This paper explores the rationales for Chinese middle-class parents' choice of Innovative Schools in Dali. Analysis of data from online…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle Class, Nontraditional Education, Parents
Stephen C. Parker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the recent increase in the number of available options for families to consider when selecting a school, diverse publicly funded public schools are now competing for both students and funding. This study intended to contribute to the available research on the changes at inner-city schools during increased school choice options. The purpose of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Urban Schools, Case Studies, Institutional Characteristics
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Erin Early; Paula Devine; Minchen Liu; Dirk Schubotz – Review of Education, 2024
The education system in Northern Ireland (NI) is complex with the diversity of management structures reflecting religious affiliation and academic selection. Within the system, integrated education provides a mechanism to promote reconciliation among divided communities. Integrated education has been aided by legislation--most recently, the…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Web Sites
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Andrea Parma; Tommaso Agasisti; Costanzo Ranci – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
In Italy, parents are free to choose the primary school for their children without restrictions imposed by catchment areas. This freedom of choice, inspired by quasi-market mechanisms, aims to foster competition between schools and raise educational standards. Analysing the case of Milan using regression models and administrative data for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education
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Alisha Butler; Bradley Quarles – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Public education reforms, such as expanded school choice, have become a critical lever for remaking urban landscapes. These reforms often aim to attract and retain affluent and White families in urban schools, so scholars have examined how these parents navigate the perceived risk of choosing these schools for their children. Purpose:…
Descriptors: African Americans, School Choice, Neighborhoods, Public Schools
Martin F. Lueken – EdChoice, 2024
This report summarizes the fiscal effects of education choice programs across the United States from an analysis of 48 private education choice programs in 25 states plus D.C. The programs in the analysis include five education savings account programs, 22 school voucher programs, and 21 tax credit scholarship programs. This study estimates the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Costs, Expenditure per Student
EdChoice, 2024
This annual publication of "The ABCs of School Choice" is a comprehensive, data-rich guide to every private school choice program in America. This edition of "The ABCs of School Choice" defines each of the six types of school choice: education savings accounts, vouchers, tax-credit scholarships, tax-credit education savings…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Money Management, Banking
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Sophia Seifert; Maia B. Cucchiara – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2024
In recent decades, school choice has become a characteristic feature of urban school systems and, like students, teachers must choose among schools with various characteristics. Such decisions become new sites for teachers to enact their professional identity. This study uses qualitative data to explore the identity negotiations of 26 teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, School Choice, Professional Identity, Social Justice
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Hsiao-Yuh Ku – History of Education, 2024
Arthur Seldon (1916-2005) was a significant British neo-liberal economist in the second half of the twentieth century. From 1957 to 1988, as the "engine room" of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Seldon had been advocating the reform of "free" state education. He vigorously argued for education vouchers, by which each parent…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Vouchers, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Campos, Christopher; Kearns, Caitlin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, School Districts, High Schools
Smith, Aaron Garth; Schwalbach, Jude – American Enterprise Institute, 2023
Nearly 70 years after Milton Friedman first proposed K-12 education vouchers, students in Arizona, Iowa, Utah, West Virginia, and other states can customize their education using education savings accounts (ESAs). ESAs allow parents to spend public education funding on expenses such as private school tuition, tutoring, and homeschooling curricula.…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, Public Schools, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy
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Dabisch, Vito – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
Growing global debates surrounding parental school choice underscore the relevance of school place allocation. While there is much research on school choice, the enactment of such allocation policy is rarely analysed. Responding to this research gap, this article investigates how local politicians in Berlin put public primary school place…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Foreign Countries
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