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Marienid Gonzalez Melendez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dual language education is an innovative educational model available for families selecting schools through school choice. While extensive research supports the academic benefits of dual language programs (DLPs) for non-English native speakers and communities of color in the United States, enrollment often does not reflect these populations. This…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Bilingual Education Programs
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Reddy, Linda A.; Lekwa, Adam; Dudek, Christopher; Kettler, Ryan; Hua, Anh – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
This investigation examined whether teacher practices, as measured by the Classroom Strategies Assessment System (CSAS), were associated with students' proficiency and gain scores, as measured by the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP), in 13 high-poverty charter schools in New Jersey. Results from two-level hierarchical linear models, fitted to a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Poverty, Classroom Techniques, Charter Schools
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Virella, Patricia M.; Weiner, Jennie M. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2020
This case study explores a central office's attempt to improve its school performance by shifting from a loosely to a more tightly coupled organization through greater oversight and standardization of practice. Educational leaders and, specifically, district-level and central office administrators often negotiate between providing schools autonomy…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, School Districts, School Administration, Institutional Autonomy
Schwalbach, Jude; DeAngelis, Corey A. – EdChoice, 2020
We examine the literature linking private and charter schooling to perceptions of student safety in United States schools. The results are generally null to positive for student, parent, and principal reports of school safety for the eight studies on safety in public charter schools and the eleven studies on safety in private schools. None of the…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Safety, Private Schools, Charter Schools
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Whatley, Amanda E.; Smith, Nichole L. – Reading Psychology, 2023
This research examined the impact of writing professional development and implementation on content area teachers' pedagogical practices. Data were collected through a survey instrument and teacher reflection questionnaires for qualitative and quantitative results. Teacher participants were employees at a rural public charter high school in North…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Faculty Development
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Virella, Patricia M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
The American educational policy agenda has been fraught with neoliberal laws that center educational improvement and innovation (Barros, 2012). Neoliberalism operates on the premise that market competition will spur excellence in educational opportunities and decrease the education debt in marginalized communities (Fejes & Salling Olesen,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Educational Change
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Bulkley, Katrina E.; Lu, Amanda; Meza Fernandez, Kate; Gerry, Alica – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Charter school authorizers shape which charter schools open, where they open, and who they serve. We draw on principal agent theory to investigate how the priorities and practices of nine authorizers intersected with charter school applications' attention to the needs of historically marginalized students. Using data from interviews and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Administration, Administrator Role, Accountability
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Douglas Harris; Roy McKenzie – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
There is considerable debate and evidence about how governments should regulate contractors and other firms, but little on how government should regulate schools. In the first phase of this study, we focus on the correlation between indices of state charter school policies and measures of charter quantity (market share) and three measures of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Standards, Correlation, Attribution Theory
Linea Koehler; Bonnie O'Keefe – Bellwether, 2023
Construction and maintenance of school facilities are big cost drivers for schools, and the quality of school facilities can make a difference in student learning and health. Notably, school building construction is the second-highest capital expenditure of state and local funds, trailing only investments in infrastructure like roads. Ensuring…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Facilities, State Aid, School Construction
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Region 13 Comprehensive Center, 2023
The New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) was faced with ensuring its local education agencies (LEAs)--comprising 89 school districts and 100 charter schools--had sufficient support to effectively use American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to meet students' most pressing needs. NMPED turned to the Region 13 Comprehensive Center (R13CC) in 2021…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Finance, Emergency Programs, COVID-19
Stéphane Lavertu; Long Tran – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
There is growing concern that some nonprofit public service providers may be nonprofit in name but not in fact. We consider this concern in the context of nonprofit charter schools, which sometimes subcontract their daily operations to for-profit management organizations. We use unique data from Ohio to study how nonprofit charter schools'…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Proprietary Schools, Nonprofit Organizations, Educational Administration
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Walls, Jeff – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2021
Misalignments in caring between home and school can often be a source of alienation for minoritized students. This study explores how African immigrant middle school students at an urban K-8 charter school experience congruencies and disconnections in caring practice between home and school. The school is academically successful and shares some…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Caring
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Lee, Jin; Lubienski, Christopher A. – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background: Extant literature has consistently indicated that access to charter school markets is shaped by social geography. Given interest in location shown by charter schools and parents, estimating potential spatial access to charter schools has become instrumental in understanding equal opportunities for charter school enrollment in…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Charter Schools, Access to Education, Metropolitan Areas
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Grimaldi, Emiliano; Ball, Stephen J. – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
The digital revolution in education is sustained by the belief that digital technologies carry with them the potential for an ethical renewal of learning according to the neoliberal principle of freedom. In this article we problematise the ethical effects of the encounter between Blended Learning as a techno-educational form and neoliberalism,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Neoliberalism, Educational Technology
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Hamlin, Daniel; Li, Angran – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Safety-seeking has fueled the growth of charter schools. Descriptive evidence suggests different possible factors underlying safety in charter schools. This study investigates characteristics mediating the relationship between safety and charter schools by linking five waves of the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS: 2003-04; 2005-06;…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Safety, School Surveys, Crime
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