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ERIC Number: EJ927777
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jun
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
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Public School Response to Special Education Vouchers: The Impact of Florida's McKay Scholarship Program on Disability Diagnosis and Student Achievement in Public Schools
Winters, Marcus A.; Greene, Jay P.
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v33 n2 p138-158 Jun 2011
The authors expand on research evaluating public school response to school choice policies by considering the particular influence of voucher programs for disabled students--a growing type of choice program that may have different implications for public school systems from those of more conventional choice programs. The authors provide a theoretical framework to show that special education vouchers could influence both school quality and the likelihood that a school will choose to identify the marginal child as disabled. Using a rich panel data set from Florida, the authors find some evidence that competition from a voucher program for disabled students decreased the likelihood that a student was diagnosed as having a mild disability and was positively related to academic achievement in the public schools. (Contains 11 tables and 14 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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