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Kim, So Jung – Journal of Children's Literature, 2022
This article examines the pedagogical potential of art-based, early critical literacy as a space in which young bilingual children can explore the issues of human diversity and uniqueness. Adopting a qualitative case study approach, this study focused on 12 five-year-old children of Mexican origin at a charter school located in Texas.
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Charter Schools, Critical Literacy, Mexican Americans
Kho, Adam; Zimmer, Ron; McEachin, Andrew – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
One of the controversies surrounding charter schools is whether these schools may either "cream skim" high-performing students from traditional public schools or "pushout" low-achieving students or students with discipline histories, leaving traditional public schools to educate the most challenging students. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Traditional Schools, Low Achievement, High Achievement
Mordechay, Kfir – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2022
Municipal governments have long looked to gentrification in hopes of addressing social problems, including poverty concentration, crime, and more recently, school segregation. Yet, little is known about the educational implications of neighborhood gentrification. This article examines the process of "school gentrification" exploring…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Elementary Schools, School Desegregation
Scheurich, James Joseph; Murphy, Stacia; Thompson, Harrianna; Box, Taylor; Gee, Vanessa; Mooney, Jerry; Dixon, Liz; Taylor, Evan – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2022
This activist research story describes the use of research by an urban multi-racial, multi-SES, citywide grassroots coalition in Indianapolis. This coalition was formed when a small group of local education activists, Black ministers, and community folks met in 2015 to resist the neoliberal takeover of the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS), a…
Descriptors: Activism, Doctoral Students, Resistance (Psychology), Neoliberalism
Schwalbach, Jude; DeAngelis, Corey A. – Educational Review, 2022
We examine the literature linking private and charter schooling to perceptions of student safety in United States schools. The results are generally positive for student, parent, and principal reports of school safety for the nine studies on safety in public charter schools and the eleven studies on safety in private schools. Eight of the nine…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Charter Schools, School Safety, School Choice
Mamo, Michael – Journal of Education Finance, 2022
District expenditures and efficiency can be influenced by the entry of charter schools. Loss of economies due to reduced enrollments and a rising share of high-cost students are some of the key mechanisms that could potentially increase the costs of providing education in district schools. The competitive pressure from charter schools could also…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Competition, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
James-Gallaway, Chaddrick D. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: In New Orleans, Louisiana, in the years following Hurricane Katrina, predominantly white education reformers have used entrepreneurial support to dismantle the predominantly Black city's public education system. Using racial domination without community approval, these education reformers have educationally disenfranchised the…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Teachers, Charter Schools, Critical Race Theory
Edwards, Danielle Sanderson; Cowen, Joshua – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2022
School choice advocates argue that choice policies increase access to desirable schools by breaking the link between residence and school placement. However, a growing body of research suggests that the distance from home to school actually influences school choice decisions. In this study, we examine the relationship between residential…
Descriptors: School Choice, Place of Residence, Proximity, Decision Making
How Fayard, Wendy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The research problem for this study was the lack of understanding regarding parents' perceptions of and experiences with mathematics and instructional strategies for kindergarten through sixth-grade (K-6) students in a charter school, homeschool setting. Dewey's theory of experience and education was the conceptual framework for the study. In this…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students
McCullough, Moira; Dotter, Dallas; Burnett, Alyson; Sutton-Heisey, Rachel; Forde, Jasmine; Carrillo-Perez, Amanda – Mathematica, 2022
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that starts and manages public charter schools, primarily in traditionally underserved communities. As part of a 2016 grant awarded to Uncommon from the U.S. Department of Education's Charter Schools Program to support replication and expansion of its school model, we conducted a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement
Nora Rivas-Garza – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological dissertation was to understand the perceived lived challenges Latina leaders faced when serving in the position of school district superintendent. The review of the literature affirmed the oppressive forces that Latina leaders encounter, as well as the lack of mentorship programs available for them;…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Superintendents, School Districts, Barriers
Frisby, Craig L. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2020
Charter schools are a growing phenomenon in the contemporary educational landscape. In this article, charter schools are defined, and the various reasons that contributed to the creation of, and interest in, charter schools are briefly described. Select examples of successful, well-performing charters are profiled, along with criticisms of charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Psychology, Counselor Attitudes, College Faculty
Rafa, Alyssa; Erwin, Ben; Kelley, Bryan; Wixom, Micah Ann – Education Commission of the States, 2020
Charter schools are semi-autonomous public schools that receive public funds. They operate under a written contract with a state, district, or other entity (referred to as an authorizer or sponsor). Charter school laws vary from state to state and often differ on several important factors, such as who may authorize charter schools, how authorizers…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, State Policy, Educational Policy, Comparative Analysis
Whitney Mulder – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This case study was designed to determine the extent to which standardized mathematics and reading scores in traditional public school differ before and after the introduction of a public charter school in central Florida rural cities. The purpose of the quantitative casual-comparative research study was to determine the impact to the traditional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Boochever, Audrey; Rose, Heather – Journal of School Choice, 2023
Using classroom-level data from nearly all California schools, we investigate whether Hispanic, Asian, Black, and Native students in grades K-5 are more likely to have a teacher of the same race at charter schools or traditional public schools in 2017-18, what school and student characteristics explain these differences, and how ethnoracial…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Racial Differences, Charter Schools