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Download full textRebecca J. Shmoys; Sierra G. McCormick; Douglas D. Ready – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Many school districts consider family preferences in allocating students to schools. In theory, this approach provides traditionally disadvantaged families greater access to high-quality schools by weakening the link between residential location and school assignment. We leverage data on the school choices made by over 233,000 New York City…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Choice, Educational Policy, Disadvantaged
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Direct linkAllison Roda; Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj – Educational Policy, 2024
The widespread expansion of school choice policies has bolstered the consumer-education paradigm where parents compete for what they perceive to be a limited number of high quality schools. In this comparative case study, we examine advantaged White parents' perceptions of meritocracy in the context of a competitive elementary and high school…
Descriptors: Ethics, School Choice, Stress Variables, Educational Policy
Mawene, Dian; Bal, Aydin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Drawn from interdisciplinary perspectives of special education, critical geography, and education policy, in this study, we examined the spatial patterns of residential areas, school attendance zones, and school discipline rates of an urbanizing school district in Wisconsin to understand the construction of spatial "Other." We measured…
Descriptors: Urbanization, School Districts, Discipline, Residential Patterns
Susha Roy – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In this paper, I study the effect of winning the public school choice lottery on public school enrollment. In particular, I look at how different outside options affect how sensitive students are to receiving their first choice in the public school lottery, focusing on three measures of outside options: "ability to afford" private…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Enrollment Trends, Private Schools
Trajkovski, Samantha; Zabel, Jeffrey; Schwartz, Amy Ellen – Grantee Submission, 2021
While school choice has been well studied, there is little existing research exploring the role of transportation, in general, and school buses, in particular, to school choice decisions. We examine the effect of school buses on school choice decisions using data on kindergarten students and their eligibility for transportation assistance in New…
Descriptors: School Choice, Bus Transportation, Student Transportation, Proximity
Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Bridges, Kimberly; Shields, Thomas J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2017
Purpose: Layered with myriad considerations, school closure and rezoning processes in urban school systems are politically fraught with the potential for damaging consequences. This article explores the politics and impacts of a closure and rezoning process in Richmond, Virginia, through the lens of themes applicable to urban school systems and…
Descriptors: School Closing, Urban Schools, School Districts, Zoning
Richards, Meredith P. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
In this study, I employ geospatial techniques to assess the impact of school attendance zone "gerrymandering" on the racial/ethnic segregation of schools, using a large national sample of 15,290 attendance zones in 663 districts. I estimate the effect of gerrymandering on school diversity and school district segregation by comparing the…
Descriptors: Attendance, School Districts, School Segregation, Racial Segregation
Pons, Xavier – Education Inquiry, 2012
Based on a comparison of school external evaluation processes in three countries (England, France and Switzerland), this article questions the possible quality turn in the governance of European educational systems. Using materials collected through qualitative methods (91 interviews, surveys of literature and observations) during a sociological…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Governance, Educational Policy
