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Austin, M. J.; Pardo, M. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
Indiana has a robust portfolio of high school options, including traditional public schools, charter schools, and private schools that accept Indiana Choice Scholarships (private voucher schools). This study identified the type of high school enrollment (high school type and voucher status) among the student populations of four cohorts (who were…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Achievement, High School Graduates
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Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2021
These are the appendixes for the report, "Do College and Career Readiness and Early College Success in Indiana Vary Depending on Whether Students Attend Public, Charter, or Private Voucher High Schools? REL 2021-071." This study examined how Indiana grade 9 students with different types of high school enrollment performed on indicators…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Achievement, High School Graduates
EdChoice, 2021
This poll was conducted between November 6-November 12, 2021 among a sample of 2,200 adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. Among the key findings are: (1) Nearly three out of four school parents feel…
Descriptors: Adults, Parents, Public Opinion, Opinions
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Szabo, Julia – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
Latinx students now make up the largest share of charter school students nationally. In this article, I focus on Latinx charter school choosers in Houston, Texas, and ask what motivates Latinx parents to exit district schools. Drawing on interviews with 31 families, I find that perceptions of present and future risk motivate charter school choice.…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans, School Choice, Charter Schools
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Martin, Jennifer L.; Magoulias, Christie M. Hill; Akbar, N. J.; Rebelsky, Dayle – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2022
In this pilot study, we examine the realities of differential funding structures across the US, which disproportionately disadvantage historically marginalized communities (Black and Brown students) and students living in poverty, contributing to an intractable opportunity gap. Prior research indicates that equitable funding can, in fact, decrease…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Equity (Finance), Equal Education
EdChoice, 2022
This poll was conducted between April 21-April 23, 2022 among a sample of 2,200 adults. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of adults based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region. Among the key findings are: (1) Americans do not agree on who should decide whether or not a…
Descriptors: Adults, Parents, Public Opinion, Opinions
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Potterton, Amanda U. – Power and Education, 2019
Arizona's "Wild West," free-market education approach via school-choice policies reflects the expansion of neo-liberal reforms, which emphasize private provision and governance of public services once markets are established. Indeed, charter schools, tax credit programs for public (state) and private schools, inter-district open…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, School Choice
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Bradfield, Tracy; Crowley, Frank – Irish Educational Studies, 2019
Ireland's fee-paying schools consistently rank highly in Ireland's secondary school league tables. Evidence also notes that the alumni of fee-paying schools represent a large proportion of those in leadership positions in business, politics and the legal professions. This paper examines the factors that affect the decision of Irish households to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Proprietary Schools, Secondary Schools, Fees
Ewing, Eve L. – American Educator, 2019
This article chronicles a community coalition's efforts to revitalize a "failing" school, the Walter H. Dyett High School in Chicago. It tells the story of one group of people fighting to keep a school open and, moreover, to see it reflect their vision for their community and their children's education. We see that this community's…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, High Schools, Activism, Social Justice
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Maroulis, Spiro; Santillano, Robert; Jabbar, Huriya; Harris, Douglas N. – American Journal of Education, 2019
We investigate student mobility in a choice-based system that has gone to scale, New Orleans, to gain insight into an underlying improvement mechanism of choice-based reform and its potential equity-related consequences. In contrast to typical analyses of mobility, this study distinguishes incumbent school characteristics that can cause students…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, School Choice, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Mann, Bryan; Baker, David P. – American Journal of Education, 2019
An analysis from 2002 to 2014, aligning media reporting of the effectiveness of the fully online K-12 cyber charter school model with data on enrollment flows to cyber charter schools and expenditure and demographic indicators across all 500 residential public school districts in Pennsylvania, finds a three-part geospatial-social process. Initial…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Districts, Mass Media, Public Schools
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Giota, Joanna; Bergh, Daniel; Emanuelsson, Ingemar – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2019
The study investigated student experiences of teaching practices in grade 9 at 2003, 2008 and 2014 after the Swedish education reforms of the 1990s. Teaching practices in both municipal and independent schools were related to student achievement and family background. Data from three nationally representative cohorts within the ongoing Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Family Characteristics, School Choice
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
All tax credit scholarship (TCS) programs are state programs. States develop program policies and requirements, including establishing the roles and responsibilities of scholarship granting organizations (SGOs) and participating private schools. The President's fiscal year 2020 budget request included a proposal for federal tax credits for…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Accountability, Tax Credits
Condliffe, Barbara; Balu, Rekha – MDRC, 2019
When many of today's parents were students, the process of applying and enrolling in school was fairly simple and involved few choices. In many cases, a family visited the neighborhood public school at the start of the school year and enrolled the child at the school's office. But now, the proliferation of school-choice policies in districts…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Choice, Family Characteristics, Parent Role
Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2019
Prepared for a Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) Strategic Education Governance Learning Seminar, this working paper analyses the functioning of accountability mechanisms in the Flemish school system from a complexity perspective, particularly accountability of equity funding in primary and secondary education. The paper shows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance)
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