Spurring parental involvement has been a core objective of charter school reform. This study compares for-profit-managed and nonprofit-managed charter schools and their public school peers in Detroit on two indicators of parental involvement. Nonprofit-managed charter schools generated higher rates of general parental involvement, net of demographic, school, and self-selection controls. Public schools, however, elicited greater parent participation in school decision making, using the same controls. Although differences in school strategies may be underlying these results, self-selection mechanisms also appear to be salient, underscoring variation in school choice participation among demographically similar families in high choice deindustrialized cities.