Download or read book Limited School Choice is Improving Michigan Public Schools written by Matthew Ladner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Choice in Michigan written by Matthew Joseph Brouillette and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primer explains school choice, historically reviewing the origins and growth of tax-funded schools nationwide and how they became synonymous with public education. It examines the rise of government-funded and operated schools in Michigan through the efforts of Isaac Crary and John Pierce and describes the negative effects of a 1970 state constitutional amendment that severely restricts parents' ability to exercise school choice. The primer demonstrates the failure of many past and present education reforms, including ever-increasing funding, to significantly improve the quality of government education, and it explains different types of school choice (including intra- and inter-district choice, charter schools, tuition vouchers, and tax credits). Finally, it evaluates the progress of school choice programs available nationwide; identifies individuals and organizations who support, oppose, or are ambivalent to greater school choice in Michigan; and outlines strategic plans that parents and other concerned citizens can follow to get involved in efforts to improve education through greater school choice. Appendixes include a glossary, a sample illustration of how to advocate for school choice with letters to the editor of local newspapers, and a list of where to go for more information on this and other education issues. (Contains 175 endnotes.) (SM)
Download or read book The Impact of Limited School Choice on Public School Districts written by Matthew Ladner and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study sought to determine whether increased competition among Michigan public schools, resulting from charter schools and the state's "schools-of-choice" program, has improved educational opportunities for children and whether competition encourages or discourages schools to respond to the needs and demands of students and parents. The research relies on information from the Wayne County Regional Service Agency, which contains 34 urban and suburban school districts, and data from state-generated publications. Anecdotal data were gathered through interviews with district superintendents and charter school principals. The evidence suggests that those who seek to improve education for Michigan children should embrace competition among schools rather than fear it. Competition has provided a powerful incentive for improvement while expanding the ability of parents to choose the school that best meets the needs of their children. There is very little evidence to suggest that competition has harmed the cause of better education in Michigan, and there is clear evidence that school choice and competition put pressure on low-performing school districts to improve. Recommendations are made for expanding parental choice in education. Appendixes contain a chart of student enrollment in Wayne County and a description of theme schools and academies in Dearborn, Michigan. (Contains 42 footnotes.) (SLD)
Download or read book Education Reform and the Limits of Policy written by Michael Addonizio and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan s Experiment with Public School Choice written by Adam DeVore and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choosing Better Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of School Choice written by Caroline M. Hoxby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of issues. Combining the results of empirical research with analyses of the basic economic forces underlying local education markets, The Economics of School Choice presents evidence concerning the impact of school choice on student achievement, school productivity, teachers, and special education. It also tackles difficult questions such as whether school choice affects where people decide to live and how choice can be integrated into a system of school financing that gives children from different backgrounds equal access to resources. Contributors discuss the latest findings on Florida's school choice program as well as voucher programs and charter schools in several other states. The resulting volume not only reveals the promise of school choice, but examines its pitfalls as well, showing how programs can be designed that exploit the idea's potential but avoid its worst effects. With school choice programs gradually becoming both more possible and more popular, this book stands out as an essential exploration of the effects such programs will have, and a necessary resource for anyone interested in the idea of school choice.
Download or read book Options Opportunities written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving School Accountability Check Ups or Choice written by Timothy J. Gronberg and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together ten papers by researchers who tackle economic issues surrounding school accountability reforms. The papers in this volume employ relevant microeconomic analysis and econometric techniques to provide an understanding of the vital economic and public policy issues. It is aimed at researchers in business, economics, and other fields.
Download or read book Choosing Schools written by Mark Schneider and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important question remains: Will parents be able to function as "smart consumers" on behalf of their children? Here a highly respected team of social scientists provides extensive empirical evidence on how parents currently do make these choices. Drawn from four different types of school districts in New York City and suburban New Jersey, their findings not only stress the importance of parental decision-making and involvement to school performance but also clarify the issues of school choice in ways that bring much-needed balance to the ongoing debate. The authors analyze what parents value in education, how much they know about schools, how well they can match what they say they want in schools with what their children get, how satisfied they are with their children's schools, and how their involvement in the schools is affected by the opportunity to choose. They discover, most notably, that low-income parents value education as much as, if not more than, high-income parents, but do not have access to the same quality of school information. This problem comes under sensitive, thorough scrutiny as do a host of other important topics, from school performance to segregation to children at risk of being left behind.
Download or read book Unused Capacity in Privately Funded Michigan Schools written by Matthew J. Brouillette and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some proponents of Michigan education reform have suggested that private schools could be used to reduce student overcrowding in public schools without the need for new taxes to construct additional schools. Another proposal includes using vouchers and tax credits to enhance parental school-choice options. Both proposals depend upon the ability and willingness of privately funded schools to accommodate additional students. Little research has been done to determine whether they have the resources and capacity to take on more students or would be willing to participate in accepting more students. A survey of private schools was conducted to determine these factors for the 1998-99 school year and beyond. Questionnaires were mailed to 1,058 privately funded schools. Results gathered from 342 of them reveal that these schools could have accommodated more than 3 percent of Michigan's public-school enrollment in the 1998-99 school year. Responding schools also reported a willingness and ability to accommodate additional students and to expand in the future if demand justified it. Survey results suggest that proposals to expand parental choice in education or use privately funded schools to ease overcrowding in government schools could be both practical and efficient. The appendix tabulates the variety of Michigan privately funded schools. (RT)
Download or read book The Improvement of Public Education in Michigan written by Michigan. Public education study commission and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Improvement of Public Education in Michigan written by Michigan. Public education study commission and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schools of Choice written by Terry Bergstrom and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnet, intradistrict choice, interdistrict choice, controlled choice, postsecondary plans, second-chance programs.
Download or read book Many the Miles to School written by Danielle Michelle Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 30 years, school choice policies have weakened the link between home residence and school assignment by allowing students to attend schools other than their neighborhood school. In theory, school choice policies can raise student achievement by increasing access to effective schools and by creating competitive pressure for schools to improve their academic quality. However, geographic factors may act as barriers to participating in school choice policies and constrain access to effective schools. To date, little attention has been paid to how geography shapes participation in and effectiveness of school choice policies.In this dissertation, comprised of three papers, I provide some of the first evidence concerning the roles of distance, residential mobility, school district boundaries, and access to transportation in participation in formal school choice programs and access to effective schools. Also, I estimate the impacts of school transportation—a policy that can mitigate the negative effects of these geographic factors on student outcomes. I examine these relationships in Michigan where students have been able to participate in inter-district and charter school choice for over 25 years. I use student-level enrollment, achievement, and address records for Michigan public school students over seven years to describe geographic inequities in participation in choice use and access to effective schools as well as to estimate the effects of the school bus on student attendance and achievement.In my first paper, I estimate a set of hazard models to determine the relationships between residential mobility, commute time to school, and exit from school choice programs. I find that the majority of exits from school choice programs correspond to a residential move. Furthermore, the probability that a student exits charter school and inter-district choice programs increases as the time spent commuting to school past their assigned school increases. These findings establish that participation in school choice policies can be determined by where schools are located in relation to students' residences.Even where school choice participation is widespread, geographic factors may still constrain access to effective schools. In my second paper, I investigate whether students living in Detroit attend the highest quality schools in their choice sets, as determined by levels of and contributions to achievement, using a set of discrete choice models. I find that students are more likely to attend the higher quality schools in their choice sets when their choice sets are restricted to schools located within Detroit, implying that access to effective schools is constrained by geographic factors.In addition to influencing access to effective schools, geographic factors can also affect student outcomes. In my final paper, I exploit the walking distance cutoffs that determine transportation eligibility to provide some of the first causal evidence of the effects of school transportation on student attendance and achievement using a regression discontinuity design. I find that transportation eligibility increases attendance rates and decreases the probability of being chronically absent especially for disadvantaged students. However, my results provide no evidence that school transportation affects achievement.Taken together, the findings of this dissertation provide substantial evidence that where students live in relation to where they go to school affects their educational opportunities and outcomes. I also show that public policy has the potential to mitigate the negative effects of these relationships.
Download or read book A Qualitative Study of Parents Decision to Choose Nonresidential Public Schools Through a School Choice Program written by Joseph L. Koenigsknecht and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Michigan Parents Who Use School Choice written by Ben DeGrow and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
