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Rebecca 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
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