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Ojala, Maria; Ekman Ladru, Danielle; Gustafson, Katarina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Due to the emergence of new forms of preschools and parents' increased freedom of choice regarding early childhood education, more research on parental preschool preferences is needed. Although preschool offers a seedbed for the development of knowledge and competencies, this development matures through interaction with parents. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, School Choice, Preschools, Mobile Educational Services
Pickford, Jocelyn; Robb, Duncan – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2021
In this first installment of the series on state-level policy and microschooling, the authors explain Idaho's recent legislative debate over two competing approaches to supporting the creation of small learning communities, known as microschools. Idaho's strong homeschooling community and its low-enrollment rural districts create political…
Descriptors: Small Schools, State Policy, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
Veney, Debbie; Jacobs, Drew – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
"Voting with Their Feet: A State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends" shows hundreds of thousands of families switched to charter schools during the first full school year of the pandemic. During the 2020-21 school year, charter school enrollment grew 7%, the largest increase in half a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts
Education Commission of the States, 2021
Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are private savings accounts funded by a deposit from the state government and managed by a parent. The deposit amount varies from state to state and is typically based on the state's per-pupil amount. To use an ESA, parents withdraw their child from the public school system and use ESA funds to purchase specified…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Money Management, Educational Finance
Margaret M. Ervin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study was conducted in a middle-class area where school districts are largely average. The purpose of this study was to better understand how families choose among the options available to their child for entering kindergarten. These options include the neighborhood public school, open enrollment into another public school, homeschooling, or…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Attitudes, School Choice, COVID-19
Oluwole A. Ilesanmi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For many decades, traditional public schools were the dominant public schools available for educating students, including those with disabilities. However, in the current climate of school choice, parents can now choose from a variety of educational options for their children. This study sought to explore the reasons parents of students with…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Charter Schools, Middle School Students
Heather Rose; Danielle Huddlestun; Jacob Hibel; Susan E. Ebeler; Kali Trzesniewski – Journal of School Choice, 2024
Using data on incoming freshmen from 2018-2020 at the University of California, Davis, we analyze whether California students from private or charter high schools, compared to students from traditional public schools, arrive at college with a higher sense of expected belonging, more positive feelings, or higher expectations about adopting positive…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Choice, Sense of Community, College Freshmen
Kissell, René Espinoza – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
In response to growing pushback to decades of privatization and disinvestment in high-poverty communities of color, elected officials and business leaders in the United States have turned to 'community-engaged strategies' to advance education reform. This qualitative case study of a California school district, the Oakland Unified School District,…
Descriptors: Privatization, Poverty, Minority Group Students, Educational Strategies
Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Frankenberg, Erica; McDermott, Kathryn; McCollum, Sarah; Scott, Janelle; DeBray, Elizabeth – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
The three terms comprising the Obama and Trump presidencies provide an opportunity to understand the evolution of race-conscious education policy in an increasingly multiracial, unequal, and divided society. Through document review and interviews with civil rights lawyers, government officials, congressional staffers, and intermediary organization…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racism, Educational Policy, Presidents
Welner, Kevin, Ed.; Orfield, Gary, Ed.; Huerta, Luis A., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2023
This authoritative book examines the long-standing campaign that resulted in today's school voucher policies. Advocates of private school vouchers promulgated a vision of service to low-income families, students of color, and other marginalized student populations. Vouchers were sold as a way to advance civil rights. But as voucher policies grew…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Equal Education, Misconceptions, Private Schools
Waitoller, Federico R.; Lubienski, Christopher – AERA Open, 2019
School choice research has provided some initial understandings of how parents choose schools. Parents' school options are bounded to differentiated choice sets--the menu of school options that parents construct when making school selections. The geographical location where families live and schools are located and families' race and class…
Descriptors: School Choice, Race, School Location, Geographic Location
Stanton, Christine Rogers – American Journal of Education, 2019
Towns that border American Indian reservations provide important contexts for studying relationships between educational institutions and marginalized communities. This study applies critical discourse methodologies to evaluate policies from districts bordering reservations, districts geographically distant from reservations, and districts located…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, School Districts, Correlation
Wixom, Micah Ann – Education Commission of the States, 2019
Open enrollment is a form of school choice allowing students to select and transfer to a school of their choice, rather than attending a school based on where they live. Students may be allowed to transfer to another school within their resident school district (intradistrict) or to a school in another district (interdistrict). Some state leaders…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, School Choice, Transfer Policy, Transfer Students
Hayes, Julian – Center for Cities & Schools, 2019
A research report on the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) student assignment policy, which was designed to help with school choice to reverse the trend of racial isolation and the concentration of underserved students in the same school, and to provide equitable access to programs offered in the district.
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Access to Education, School Choice, Educational Policy
Honey, Ngaire; Smrekar, Claire – Urban Education, 2022
In a context that privileges neighborhood zoning and school choice over within-district busing, we examine urban residents' perceptions of the benefits of racial diversity. We analyze public opinion trends by race and residents' experience as a student in a district under court-ordered desegregation--Nashville, TN. We find racial differences…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Public Opinion, Urban Areas