Higher education surveys from United States' National Center for Education Statistics

Mendoza, Pilar; Zhou, Enyu; Abdelmalek, Nathan; Wang, Ze

doi:10.1504/ijqre.2017.10007531

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“…First, our analyses focused on one urban district. Many urban areas have large charter school sectors (Wang et al, 2019), but the present findings likely do not generalize to areas without a large charter presence, and there is substantial variation in the SPED gap by state (Barnard-Brak et al, 2018). However, the richness of the available data from Newark that allows for us to appropriately address selection bias providing a contribution to the field despite limited generalizability.…”

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confidence: 74%

Choice, Mobility, and Classification: Disaggregating the Charter School Special Education Gap

Gilmour

Shanks²,

Winters

2022

Remedial and Special Education

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Growing numbers of students are educated in charter schools, including students with disabilities (SWD). Prior research suggests that charter schools educate a smaller percentage of SWD than traditional public schools, leading to a special education gap between sectors. We used data from a large urban district to examine how choice, mobility, and special education classification influenced the special education gap with descriptive statistics, gap decomposition, and causal analyses relying on a randomized component of school assignment. The driver of the gap was parental choice, with parents of SWD less often choosing charter schools. Enrolling in a charter school had no effect on the probability that a student was newly identified for special education services, but increased the probability that a student was deidentified for special education services. We discuss potential mechanisms underlying these results, with attention to factors that shape parental choice, and future research needed to understand parental choices.

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confidence: 74%