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Wazir Ali; Abdul Rahman; Ravik Karsidi; Niamatullah Baloch – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Education is a transformative force with the potential to reshape socio-political structures, promote equity, and drive social progress. However, in Pakistan, elite capture presents a significant challenge to the education system, spreading disparities and restricting access to quality education by marginalised communities. Therefore, our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Equal Education, Access to Education
Jeremy Singer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Educational policymakers, leaders, and researchers are paying increasing attention to student attendance and chronic absenteeism, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though researchers have documented the consequences and causes of absenteeism, there is limited empirical evidence about what schools and districts are actually doing to…
Descriptors: Attendance, Educational Practices, School Districts, COVID-19
Walk, Ted – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many school districts in the United States are facing growing concerns regarding the shortage of qualified candidates for teaching positions. This problem has existed for some time, and its deleterious effects are exacerbated in school districts that have significant teacher turnover. School districts with higher teacher retention can mitigate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Public School Teachers
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Baams, Laura; Talmage, Craig A.; Russell, Stephen T. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Because many school districts receive funding based on student attendance, absenteeism results in a high cost for the public education system. This study shows the direct links between bias-based bullying, school absenteeism because of feeling unsafe at school, and loss of funds for school districts in California. Data from the 2011-2013…
Descriptors: School Districts, Resource Allocation, Financial Support, Public Education
Chang, Hedy – Attendance Works, 2018
The California Department of Education (CDE) released statewide chronic absence data in December 2017 via DataQuest, an interactive data portal. To better understand chronic absence at the school level, Attendance Works collaborated with the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis and Children Now to analyze the data available from DataQuest and…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Public Schools, Incidence, High School Students
Center for Public Education, National School Boards Association, 2021
Since the first charter school law passed in Minnesota in 1991, over 40 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing the publicly funded, privately managed, and semiautonomous schools of choice. Ever since the first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1992, the battle for fair funding has raged across the land. On the one hand,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Academic Achievement
Uro, Gabriela; Lai, David – Council of the Great City Schools, 2019
In 2013, the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) published the first-ever report on English language learners (ELLs) enrolled in member districts, reporting on a range of indicators in addition to ELL enrollment and languages spoken by such students. This report updates most of the data presented in the 2013 Council ELL report, shedding light…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Urban Schools, Urban Areas, Academic Achievement