The effect of charter schools on traditional public school students in Texas: Are children who stay behind left behind?

Booker, Kevin; Gilpatric, Scott M.; Gronberg, Timothy J.; Jansen, Dennis W.

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2007.10.003

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“…This evidence highlights the need for a better understanding of charter attrition rates and what happens to these students who transition back to traditional public schools, in addition to more information about graduation rates. 14 On the other hand, evidence from two other states finds a significant positive relationship between attendance at a charter high school and educational attainment (Booker, et al, 2008). After controlling for key student characteristics (e.g., race, ethnicity and poverty level) and 8 th grade test scores in a student-level dataset gleaned from a variety of state and local sources, researchers discovered that charter middle school students in Florida and Chicago opting to attend a charter high school were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than those electing to attend a traditional public high school (Booker et al, 2008;Zimmer, et al, 2009).…”

Section: Achievement and Educational Attainment In Charter Schoolsmentioning

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“…14 On the other hand, evidence from two other states finds a significant positive relationship between attendance at a charter high school and educational attainment (Booker, et al, 2008). After controlling for key student characteristics (e.g., race, ethnicity and poverty level) and 8 th grade test scores in a student-level dataset gleaned from a variety of state and local sources, researchers discovered that charter middle school students in Florida and Chicago opting to attend a charter high school were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than those electing to attend a traditional public high school (Booker et al, 2008;Zimmer, et al, 2009). The researchers posit that the use of 8 th grade charter test scores helped control for selection bias issues, allowing for a more accurate appraisal of the effects associated with attending a charter high school.…”

Section: Achievement and Educational Attainment In Charter Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The drawback to this approach is the limited pool of students studied. We know nothing, for example, about the graduation effects associated with students enrolled in traditional public middle schools that go on to attend charter high schools (Booker, et al, 2008;Zimmer, et al, 2009). The authors of this research note that few, if any, other studies have attempted to examine graduation and education attainment rates for charter school students.…”

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Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation

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Siegel‐Hawley

Wang

2011

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Abstract:The political popularity of charter schools is unmistakable. This article explores the relationship between charter schools and segregation across the country, in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students in 2007-08. The descriptive analysis of the charter school enrollment is aimed at understanding the characteristics of students enrolled in charter schools and the extent to which charter school students are segregated, including how charter school segregation compare to students in traditional public schools. This article examines these questions at different levels, aggregating school-level enrollment to explore patterns among metropolitan areas, states, and the nation using three national datasets. Our findings suggest that charters currently isolate epaa aape Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol 19 No12 students by race and class. This analysis of recent data finds that charter schools are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the nation. In some regions, white students are overrepresented in charter schools while in other charter schools; minority students have little exposure to white students. Data about the extent to which charter schools serve low-income and English Language Learners is incomplete, but suggest that a substantial share of charter schools may not enroll such students. As charters represent an increasing share of our public schools, they influence the level of segregation experienced by all of our nation's school-aged children. After two decades, the promise of charter schools to use choice to foster integration and equality in American education has yet to be realized. Keywords: School choice; school demography; student diversity; educational policy Selección sin equidad: Segregación escolar en las escuelas charter Resumen: La popularidad política de las escuelas "charter" es inconfundible. Este artículo explora la relación entre las escuelas charter y la segregación en el país, en 40 estados, el Distrito de Columbia, y varias docenas de áreas metropolitanas con gran cantidad de estudiantes inscriptos en escuelas "charter" durante los años 2007-08. El análisis descriptivo de la matrícula escolar en las escuelas charter tiene el objetivo de comprender la matrícula y características de los alumnos de las escuelas charter y en que medida los estudiantes de escuelas charter están segregados, incluyendo la formas de segregación escolar y compararlos con estudiantes de escuelas públicas tradicionales. Este artículo examina esas cuestiones en diferentes niveles, la matrícula escolar agregada por nivel para estudiar los patrones en áreas metropolitanas, estados y la nación con tres conjuntos de datos nacionales. Nuestros hallazgos sugieren que las escuelas charter aíslan a los estudiantes por raza y clase. Este análisis de datos recientes encuentra que las escuelas charter son racialmente más aisladas que las escuelas públicas tradi...

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Section: Achievement and Educational Attainment In Charter Schoolsmentioning

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Section: Achievement and Educational Attainment In Charter Schoolsmentioning

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Section: Achievement and Educational Attainment In Charter Schoolsmentioning

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Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation

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Wang

2011

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“…The studies generally find charter schools having either a small positive effect on student performance in surrounding public schools or, at worst, no systemic effect on the public schools. There is need of considerably more evidence on the point, however, to gain a better sense of the conditions under which charter schools might promote healthy competitive re-______________ 128 Booker et al, 2006. 129 Sass, 2005. 130 Bifulco and Ladd, 2005. 131 Zimmer and Buddin, 2006. sponses from conventional public schools. It is not surprising that the effect of charter schools on public-school achievement would vary from state to state: The financial arrangements in the charter laws, the degree of autonomy that charter schools have from district control, the type of students that charter schools are attracting, the level of preexisting competition among public schools and between public and private schools, and the rate at which the public-school districts are growing could all impact the systemic effect of charter schools on public-school achievement.…”

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Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools

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Ross³

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“…Ronald J. Nuzzi, the director of the Alliance for Catholic Education leadership program at the University of Notre Dame, had said that charter schools are "one of the biggest threats to Catholic schools in the inner city, hands down,", see Cech (2008). Sass (2006) and Hoxby and Murarka (2007)); or the competition effect on surrounding regular public schools (see, for example, Hoxby (2002), Bettinger (2005), Sass (2006) and Booker et al (2008)), or the effects on sorting of students across public and charter schools, particularly based on racial composition (Dee and Fu, 2004). This is one of the few studies which analyze the enrollment effects of charter schools.…”

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Do Charter Schools Crowd Out Private School Enrollment? Evidence from Michigan

Chakrabarti

Roy

2010

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractCharter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States. Currently, there are more than 4,500 charter schools spread across forty U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Though there have been numerous studies on the effects of charter schools, these have mostly been confined to analyzing the effects on student achievement, student demographic composition, parental satisfaction, and the competitive effects on regular public schools. This study departs from the existing literature by investigating the effect of charter schools on enrollment in private schools.To investigate this issue empirically, we focus on the state of Michigan, where there was a significant spread of charter schools in the 1990s. Using data on private school enrollment from decennial censuses and biennial National Center for Education Statistics private school surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy that exploits exogenous variation from Michigan charter law, we investigate the effect of charter school penetration on private school enrollment. We find some evidence of a decline in enrollment in private schools -but the effect is only modest in size. This finding is reasonably robust, and survives several robustness checks.

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The effect of charter schools on traditional public school students in Texas: Are children who stay behind left behind?

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Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation

Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation

Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools

Do Charter Schools Crowd Out Private School Enrollment? Evidence from Michigan

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