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Steven M. Urdegar – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2022
The Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES) Program, signed into law on May 9, 2019 (1002.394, F.S.), was established to provide children of Florida families with financial assistance to attend an eligible private school of choice. Funding is equal to 100% of the district average cost per student. Eligibility is limited to students whose families…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Student Characteristics, Private Schools, School Choice
Konadu Y. Gyamfi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Black people in America have proven to be able to survive against the racial tensions and attacks endured throughout history (Love, 2019). In our present context, continued racism and violence against Black bodies has shifted the narrative from merely surviving to a journey towards advancement. In this dissertation study, I use endarkened feminist…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Racial Factors, School Choice, College Athletics
Kamara C. Roach – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A qualitative study was conducted to understand better how school principals respond in an environment of school choice and how this reform movement impacts their role as leaders. The principal is considered one of the most influential people in the development of the quality and character of a school. Reform policies have added to the traditional…
Descriptors: Principals, School Choice, Administrator Role, Educational Change
Sean Bielmeier – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation utilizes a qualitative approach to research, guided by policy analysis and evaluative case studies. The purpose of the study is to examine what information is made available to parents regarding their rights, and the rights of their child, when utilizing a voucher or education savings account to attend a private school. The…
Descriptors: Parent Rights, Student Rights, Educational Vouchers, Money Management
Demirbilek, Mesut; Keser, Sitar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2023
In the present study, the descriptive demographic characteristics, life satisfaction levels, and differentiation status of open education high school students according to various variables were revealed. The research was carried out with a sample of five hundred open education high school students via a survey model by means of convenience…
Descriptors: Open Education, High School Students, Life Satisfaction, Student Attitudes
Sattin-Bajaj, Carolyn – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
Despite a growing recognition of the significance of student transportation for promoting equitable school choice, to date, there has been limited understanding of the implementation of school transportation policies, particularly in choice-heavy settings. Moreover, little is known about the challenges associated with managing student…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, School Districts, School Choice, Board of Education Policy
West, Anne – Journal of School Choice, 2023
This paper focuses on school choice and diversity in the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) in historical context. Drawing on primary and secondary documentary sources it assesses continuity, change and divergence, before addressing existing diversity and school choice, and academic outcomes. The 1944 Education Act and associated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, School Choice, Diversity
Healy, Anthony – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2023
I propose that the grounded types analytical method (GTAM) is a systematic and useful means of typology construction for qualitative studies. GTAM arose within European social sciences in response to a need to schematize qualitative typology and to explicate qualitative types more precisely. GTAM is applicable to a variety of qualitative…
Descriptors: School Choice, Classification, Suburban Schools, Foreign Countries
Justice, Scot; Helms, Alex; Hermanson, Dana – Journal of School Choice, 2023
We survey 137 charter school administrators and 129 board members and find that U.S. charter school internal controls are perceived to be relatively strong overall. However, board independence, board communication of internal control responsibilities to school personnel, lines of communication between the board and school personnel, and reporting…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Boards of Education
Pai, Anant – Comparative Education Review, 2023
Myriad academic, situational, and organizational factors play an important role in parental decision-making for school choice. We propose a framework for how hot knowledge is processed through the lens of parents' own sociopolitical values (i.e., constraints) to inform preferences. This study employs 8 months of ethnographic case study data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Decision Making, Political Attitudes
Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Haley, Aimee – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
The article re-imagines the current developments of Swedish education into a possible future. Historically, education was organized and funded by the state; however, reforms towards privatization in the 1990s implemented school choice, private schools and a tax-financed voucher system with the option of turning profits on education. A new judicial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Change, School Choice
Finger, Leslie K.; Houston, David M. – Harvard Educational Review, 2023
In this research article, Leslie K. Finger and David M. Houston explore how different ideas about the objectives of education can influence families' schooling preferences and choices. For their study they employed a conjoint experiment embedded in an online survey to examine participants' preferences for various school characteristics, including…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Role of Education, School Choice, Institutional Characteristics
Youngran Kim; Ron Zimmer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
During the pandemic, a number of states instituted hold-harmless funding policies to protect school district financially from declining enrollments (Center for Public Education, 2021). In addition, some school choice policies have protected traditional public schools financially from declining enrollments. Together, these policies raise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Competition, Reputation
David M. Houston; Jeffrey R. Henig – AERA Open, 2023
We examine the effects of disseminating school-level academic performance data--achievement status, achievement growth, or both--on parents' school choices and their implications for racial, ethnic, and economic segregation. Many researchers consider growth to be a superior (if still imperfect) measure of school effectiveness relative to status.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Choice, School Segregation, Racial Segregation
Jay K. Solomonson; Trent Wells; Bryan D. Rank; Blessing Ugwuanyi – NACTA Journal, 2023
Recently, enrollments at numerous American universities have been trending downward. This has led to an increasingly competitive atmosphere for attracting new students, creating the need to better understand why students ultimately attend their chosen institution. Prior research has explored factors that influence students to pursue agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Colleges, Land Grant Universities, School Choice