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Goldsweig, Seth Jason – Journal of Jewish Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to better understand how Jewish day school leaders in Toronto perceive non-Orthodox Jewish day school financial sustainability. This multisite case study used a questionnaire, completed by 23 leaders of non-Orthodox Jewish day schools, and one-on-one interviews with all eight heads of school of the non-Orthodox Jewish…
Descriptors: Judaism, Day Schools, Foreign Countries, Religious Education
Gilblom, Elizabeth A.; Sang, Hilla I. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
This study builds on previous research investigating management organizations (MOs), charter school locations, and closure by examining the effects of MO type (EMO, CMO and freestanding schools), racial enrollment, student achievement, and the community characteristics surrounding each charter school in Ohio's eight largest counties with the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, School Administration, Organizations (Groups)
Ubakivi-Hadachi, Pille; Nimmerfeldt, Gerli – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2021
The competitiveness of middle-class parents' educational strategies has been researched extensively across differing institutional contexts, but evidence from Eastern Europe is lacking. This article examines how Estonian middle-class parents with differing amounts of economic and cultural capital harbour contrasting understandings of good…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Role of Education, Preferences, Middle Class
Mc Ginley, Hannagh; Keane, Elaine – Education Sciences, 2021
Since the formation of the Irish State, the participation and attainment in education of members of the Irish Traveller community have been low. In terms of school-related factors, research points to Travellers perceiving the curriculum as irrelevant, experiencing problematic relationships with peers and teachers, a strong sense of not belonging,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
In efforts to better understand program availability, quality, and characteristics related to family choice among universal prekindergarten (preK) programs in Vermont, this study examined the characteristics of approved preK programs overall, public school and private programs separately, and programs in local education agencies with different…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Equal Education, Validated Programs, Access to Education
Julius, Jenna; Hillary, Jude; Veruete-McKay, Leticia – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
To mark the ten year anniversary since the introduction of the free schools programme, New Schools Network (NSN) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to conduct an independent data-led investigation into what impact free schools have had since their introduction in 2010. The research examines the impact that free…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Nontraditional Education, Program Evaluation
National Center for Homeless Education, 2021
Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. § 11431 et seq.; hereafter the "McKinney-Vento Act"), reauthorized in 2015 by Title IX, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act, guarantees educational rights and supports for students experiencing homelessness. The Act requires State education agencies (SEAs) and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Homeless People, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
DeAngelis, Corey – American Enterprise Institute, 2021
Through their response to the pandemic, teachers unions overplayed their hand and exposed inherent failures of the one-size-fits-all government school system. Families are now thankfully figuring out that there isn't any good reason to fund institutions when they can fund students directly instead. Support for school choice is through the roof,…
Descriptors: Teachers, Unions, School Choice, Educational Finance
Education Commission of the States, 2021
School vouchers are state-funded programs--often called scholarship programs--that allow students to use public monies to attend a private school. The state provides a set amount of money, typically based on the state's per-pupil amount, for private school tuition. There are currently 27 voucher programs in 16 states and the District of Columbia.…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, State Programs, Scholarships, School Choice
Education Commission of the States, 2021
School vouchers are state-funded programs--often called scholarship programs--that allow students to use public monies to attend a private school. The state provides a set amount of money, typically based on the state's per-pupil amount, for private school tuition. There are currently 27 voucher programs in 16 states and the District of Columbia.…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, State Programs, Scholarships, School Choice
Aisha Haynes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This interview study explored the experience of principals as they mediate reforms marked by high-stakes accountability and competition between schools at the intersection of gentrification occurring in their school communities. School principals of high schools within New York City are called to mediate mandated school choice with the continued…
Descriptors: School Administration, Principals, Accountability, Educational Change
Hailey, Chantal A. – Educational Policy, 2022
Families indicate that fit and safety are priorities in school selections. It is not clear, however, whether school racial composition shapes families' perceptions of anticipated school belonging. Using a survey experiment with students and parents actively choosing NYC schools, I find that families expressed racialized judgments of belonging.…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Sense of Community, School Choice, School Demography
Väkevä, Lauri; Westerlund, Heidi; Ilmola-Sheppard, Leena – Music Education Research, 2022
This study presents an analysis of hidden elitism in music education through the free choice argument -- that individuals are fundamentally free to choose to study music -- as a meritocratic power structure. Qualitative Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is applied to understand music education as a social system with a special structure in which its…
Descriptors: School Choice, Music Education, Power Structure, Social Systems
Choice in a Time of COVID: Immediate Enrollment Decisions in New York City and Detroit. Policy Brief
Cordes, Sarah A.; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Singer, Jeremy; Trajkovski, Samantha – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
The COVID-19 crisis caused the educational system's sudden and drastic upheaval as parents were forced to decide where their children would attend school and how they would get there. These decisions were complicated by the uncertainty surrounding what type of online or hybrid schooling districts would offer, the health risks of different…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment Trends, Student Mobility
Mouritsen, Per; Vestergaard Ahrensberg, Nanna; Kriegbaum Jensen, Kristian – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
The public funding or even toleration of religious minority schools, particularly Muslim faith schools, is controversial in West European countries. Political theorists often posit that parents' right to choose these schools conflicts with the equally or more important societal concerns with child autonomy and civic integration or education to…
Descriptors: Muslims, Parent Attitudes, School Choice, Islam