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Direct linkRichards, Meredith P.; Pavlakis, Alexandra E. – Educational Researcher, 2022
Students experiencing homelessness spend their nights in various settings, including shelters, with friends/families (doubled-up), motels/hotels, and unsheltered contexts. Yet there is limited quantitative research on how educational outcomes vary by residential context. We analyze data from over 400,000 students in Houston Independent School…
Descriptors: Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Homeless People, Outcomes of Education
Download full textHouston Independent School District, 2023
As an independent school district, Houston Independent School District (HISD) contracted with four operators of seven External Performance Contract Campuses, or contract campuses. Houston ISD contract campuses receive funding through the district. HISD has implemented a comprehensive performance accountability and compliance monitoring system that…
Descriptors: School Districts, Achievement Tests, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Stroub, Kori J.; Richards, Meredith P. – Texas Education Research Center, 2016
Over the past decades, the closure of urban public schools has disrupted the educational experiences of hundreds of thousands of public schoolchildren. Since 2000, urban school districts in cities such as Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. have…
Descriptors: School Closing, Attendance Patterns, Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Holmes, Venita R. – Houston Independent School District, 2018
This study hypothesized that HISD prekindergarten participation consistently correlated with better educational outcomes for students. Taking into account students' age differences through kindergarten enrollment, propensity score matching controlled for students' background characteristics. Three cohorts of students in this study were eligible or…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Language Arts
