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 School Choice Policies in Michigan written by David Arsen and published by . This book was released on 1999* with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SCHOOL CHOICE POLICIES IN MICHIGAN THE RULES MATTER ED439492 U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION written by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 School Choice written by Brown Center on Education Policy and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In going about its work, the commission reviewed the possible effects of school choice in light of the core value of public education: that all children should be thoroughly educated, so that they may pursue their own dreams and contribute to a democratic, egalitarian, and prosperous American society. Drawing from that premise, the commission explored choice in terms of four key issues: benefits to children whose parents choose new schools; benefits to children whose families do not exercise choice; effects on the national commitment to equal opportunity and school desegregation; and advancement of social cohesion and common democratic values.
Download or read book School Choice at the Crossroads written by Mark Berends and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Choice at the Crossroads compiles exemplary, policy-relevant research on school choice options—voucher, private, charter, and traditional public schools—as they have been implemented across the nation. Renowned contributors highlight the latest rigorous research findings and implications on school vouchers, tuition tax credits, and charter schools in states and local areas at the forefront of school choice policy. Examining national and state-level perspectives, each chapter discusses the effects of choice and vouchers on student outcomes, the processes of choice, supportive conditions of school choice programs, comparative features of school choice, and future research. This timely volume addresses whether school choice works, under what conditions, and for whom—further informing educational research, policy, and practice.
Download or read book School Efficiency Social Stratification and School Choice written by Yongmei Ni and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring the School Choice Universe written by Kevin G. Welner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. In doing so, it offers cross-cutting insights that are obscured when one looks only at single issue or a single approach to choice. The book examines choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, tuition tax credit plans that provide a public subsidy for private school tuition, and magnet schools and other forms of public school intra- and interdistrict choice. It brings together some of the top researchers in the field, presenting a comprehensive overview of the best current knowledge of these important policies. The questions addressed in Exploring the School Choice Universe are of most importance to researchers and policy makers. What do choice programs actually do? What forms do they take? Who participates, and why? What are the funding implications? What are the results of different forms of school choice on outcomes that matter, like student performance, segregation, and competition effects? Do they affect teachers’ working conditions? Do they drive innovation? The contents of this book offer reason to believe that choice policies can further some educational goals. But they also suggest many reasons for caution. If choice policies are to be evidence-based, a re-examination is in order. The information, insights and recommendations facilitate a more nuanced understanding of school choice and provide the basis for designing sensible school choice reforms that can pursue a range of desirable outcomes.
Download or read book Parental Engagement School Choice Policies in Michigan written by Christine Elizabeth Thelen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates challenges to access and equity embedded within different types of parental engagement policies, including school choice policies, in Michigan. Although many policy proponents claim that policies have the potential to provide more opportunities for marginalized parents, little is known about the access and equity implications of policy language. I apply an original conceptual framework to my exploration of these issues, drawing on Diem & Young's (2015) five critical concerns of critical policy analysis and the literature base centering on critical parental engagement studies. I call my framework critical parental engagement policy studies. This critical document analysis provides new understandings of the form and content of parental engagement policy documents and the challenges to access and equity that are embedded within policy language. I analyze data from school district parental engagement policies, Michigan's interdistrict student transfer policies (better known in the state as schools of choice), and documents from a regional collaborative schools of choice agreement encompassing twenty districts. I find that policies sometimes widen but more often restrict educational access for marginalized parents. Moreover, parents who already hold social advantages are likely well-positioned to take advantage of new parental engagement opportunities, potentially at the expense of marginalized parents.
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 School Choice written by Brian L. Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 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 School Choice Policies and Outcomes written by Walter Feinberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. Opponents of school choice fear that rolling back the government's role will lead to profit-driven financial scandals, sectarianism, and increased class and racial isolation. School choice advocates believe that state provision, oversight, and regulation stifle entrepreneurial creativity. The contributors to this volume not only provide a clear assessment of the logic and evidence supporting the different sides of the debate but also unmask the assumptions about the relationship between markets, government, and educational achievement. Their message is that neither markets nor government alone will guarantee freedom, equality, achievement, or community. If choice is to improve education and advance equality, then educational policy cannot be placed on automatic and left to the "free" market. Rather, choice policy must be deliberately directed toward meeting these goals, and this book shows how that could be accomplished.
Download or read book School Choice and School Improvement written by Mark Berends and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a direction in the development of school choice.
Download or read book Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice written by Michael Mintrom and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid and controversial, the spread of school choice initiatives across the United States has radically changed political debate about public education. In this book, Michael Mintrom explores the complex world of open-enrollment policies, charter schools and voucher plans to reveal how and why school choice has become a major issue, and he draws important conclusions about how innovative individuals can spur significant change in the policy arena. Policy entrepreneurs—individuals who take up a cause and make it part of the political agenda—have largely remained background figures without clear definition in the policymaking literature. This book is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the concept of policy entrepreneurship, providing an important foundation for explaining how policy proposals are initiated, considered, and adopted. Mintrom uses the emergence of school choice in state politics to examine how policy change originates. He shows how policy entrepreneurs have been instrumental in placing school choice onto state legislative agendas, despite the lack of compelling evidence about its merits, and how they use social networks, reframe policy issues, and attempt to shift the sites of policy debate. Blending innovative theory with both qualitative and quantitative investigation, Mintrom explains how energetic individuals made school choice a real choice. In doing so, he changes our broader understanding of how policy is formed.
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:
