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Download full textDade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. Office of Educational Accountability. – 1984
A study was conducted within the Dade County (Florida) Public Schools to determine why large numbers of Black students were using the racial majority to minority transfer option, and, in particular, transferring from Van E. Blanton Elementary And Horace Mann Junior to Miami Shores Elementary and North Miami Junior schools. From a list of 471…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Educational Environment, Educational Quality
De Angelis, Karen; Rossi, Robert – 1996
Public school-choice programs are diverse and offer within- and outside-district flexibility in meeting student needs. This bulletin examined data available from the 1993-94 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to answer questions about regional differences in choice programs,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Supply, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Billings, Judith A. – 1990
In March 1990, the Washington State Legislature adopted the Learning by Choice Law, a law relating to student enrollment options. The law consists of three major components: Family Choice; Running Start; and Seventh and Eighth Grade Choice. The Family Choice law allows parents to select which public school(s) their children will attend, within…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Enrollment, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Grade 11
Freedom House Inst. on Schools and Education, Roxbury, MA. – 1975
Since February 1974, the Freedom House Institute on Schools and Education has been attempting to chip away at the walls that divide people from their educational opportunities, by providing the information which they must have in order to deal effectively with the Boston Public School System and related educational resources. This brochure is an…
Descriptors: Attendance Records, Black Community, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects
Pioneer Inst. for Public Policy Research, Boston, MA. – 1995
Pioneer Institute recently organized a roundtable in which school officials discussed their experiences with inter-district public school choice. The participants exchanged views on the current state of the choice program in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts inter-district school choice program allows parents to enroll their children at schools in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Competition, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
District Court, Houston, TX. Southern District of Texas. – 1975
On June 1, 1970 The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, entered its Memorandum and Order requiring the Houston Independent School District to operate its schools beginning with the 1970-71 school year under an equi-distant zoning plan. The pairings and rezoning as finally ordered were fully…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Quincy. Bureau of Equal Educational Opportunity. – 1986
This examination of parent choice among public schools in Massachusetts begins with an expanded version of remarks made by C. L. Glenn to the Board of the National Education Association describing the parent choice options available in Massachusetts and the ways in which they have developed. Approximately four of five minority students in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Free Choice Transfer Programs, Magnet Schools
