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David Lapp; Anna Shaw-Amoah – Research for Action, 2024
This PACER brief provides RFA's updated analysis of data on students experiencing homelessness in Pennsylvania, highlighting prevalence, challenges with identification, disparities in educational opportunities, and impact on academic outcomes. Our main findings include that: (1) Roughly 2% of students in Pennsylvania were identified as…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Incidence, Access to Education, Barriers
Drew Jacobs; Debbie Veney – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2023
"Believing in Public Education: A Demographic and State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends" is a new data analysis that examines enrollment trends during the last four school years (2019-2023). Over the last four school years (2019-20 to 2022-23), charter schools have gained more than…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts
David, Rebecca; Hesla, Kevin; Pendergrass, Susan Aud – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2017
Public charter schools are unique public schools that are allowed the freedom to be innovative while being held accountable for advancing student achievement. Over the past ten years, enrollment in charter schools has nearly tripled--from 1.2 million students in 2006-07 to more than 3 million students in 2016-17. The number of school districts…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Enrollment, School Districts
Shaw-Amoah, Anna; Lapp, David – Research for Action, 2021
As Research for Action (RFA) found in 2018 (see ED593694), Pennsylvania schools have a history of under-identifying students experiencing homelessness, denying likely hundreds of students the educational rights afforded by federal law each year. Now the state, along with the whole nation, is facing multiple crises as a result of the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Federal Legislation, Public Schools, Identification
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Cornman, Stephen Q.; Ampadu, Osei; Hanak, Kaitlin; Howell, Malia R.; Wheeler, Stephen – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This report presents data on public elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures at the local education agency (LEA) or school district level for fiscal year (FY) 2018. Specifically, this report includes the following types of school district finance data: (1) revenue, current expenditure, and capital outlay expenditure totals; (2)…
Descriptors: Income, Expenditures, Expenditure per Student, Public Schools
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Cornman, Stephen Q. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
This First Look report presents data on public elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures at the local education agency (LEA) or school district level for fiscal year (FY) 2014.1 Specifically, this report includes findings from the following types of school finance data: (1) Revenue and expenditure totals by state and the 100…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Income, Expenditures, School Districts
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Cornman, Stephen Q. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
This First Look report presents data on public elementary and secondary education revenues and expenditures at the local education agency (LEA) or school district level for fiscal year (FY) 2013. Specifically, this report includes findings from the following types of school finance data: (1) revenue and expenditure totals by state and the 100…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Income, Expenditures
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2017
The 2016 Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is the fifth release of an annual compilation of data on the condition of K-12 school choice in the geographical areas served by the nation's 100 largest school districts. The ECCI captures information on: (1) the extent of choice; (2) the characteristics of the process by which parents and…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
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Keaton, Patrick – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
This National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) First Look report introduces new data for the universe of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies in the United States in school year (SY) 2012-13. Specifically, this report includes statistics that describe: (1) the numbers and types of public elementary and secondary schools and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Enrollment
Brinson, Dana; Boast, Lyria; Hassel, Bryan C.; Kingsland, Neerav – Public Impact, 2012
New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) commissioned this guide, in collaboration with the Louisiana Recovery School District and the Tennessee Achievement School District, to meet the Investing in Innovation (i3) requirement that grantees disseminate the lessons of their work. To create this guide, NSNO worked with Public Impact to build on prior…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Education, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
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Glander, Mark – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) First Look report introduces new data for the universe of public elementary and secondary schools and agencies in the United States in school year (SY) 2013-14. Specifically, this report includes statistics that describe: (1) the numbers and types of public elementary and secondary schools and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, School Districts
Whitehurst, Grover J.; Klein, Ellie – Brookings Institution, 2015
The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings releases an annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) that chronicles how school choice is manifested in the nation's 100+ largest school districts. The ECCI scores and ranks districts on the degree to which families within the district's borders have access to: (1) maximum choice; (2) a…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2015
The Brookings Institution releases an annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) that chronicles how school choice is manifested in the nation's 100+ largest school districts. The ECCI scores and ranks districts on the degree to which families within the district's borders have access to: (1) maximum choice; (2) a choice process that…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
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Lubienski, Christopher – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
Recent reforms in England's education system have been justified on the grounds that other countries have pursued similar approaches to education reform. Many such policies that by-pass or otherwise diminish meso-level institutions demonstrate a commitment to the idea of devolving authority to local actors. The current reforms in England and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Governance
Ladner, Matthew – Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2015
"Turn and Face the Strain: Age Demographic Change and the Near Future of American Education" outlines a fierce battle looming between the needs of public health care and education. A crisis is fast approaching that makes comprehensive improvement of America's public schools more important than ever. Faced with rapidly expanding…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Baby Boomers, Retirement, Public Schools
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