Pub Date : 2022-10-25DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2129334
L. Prieto, Jonathan Aguero-Valverde, J. Flacke, M. V. van Maarseveen
ABSTRACT Schools’ priorities in student selection constitute the basis for fairness in school admissions. We study the case where schools are active strategic players that rank their applicants in terms of priorities. A methodological framework is developed to examine the impact of the variation in the admission settings on the equality of opportunity in access to high-quality schools. The school’s priorities are formulated following a Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis (MADA) approach with several scenarios including geographic, family, academic, and socioeconomic variables. The matching is simulated using student preferences, multiple assignment algorithms, varying school capacities, and changing priority profiles. The Human Opportunity Index (HOI) logistic regression approach is used to examine how far from, or how close the admission is to being an equitable assignment, i.e., one that gives equal opportunities to children with different backgrounds. The analysis is based on choice admission data from a large specialized (magnet) middle school program in Florida. The results suggest that how the school priority is designed slightly affects the equality of opportunity. The second impact is due to the algorithm used to perform the selection. The availability of places in high-quality schools has a big impact and is tightly correlated with the parents’ satisfaction with their most preferred school choices.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2132589
Ben Luikart, Joshua C. Hall, Joshua Martin
ABSTRACT Tennessee passed voucher-style Education Savings Account (ESA) legislation in 2019. We analyze the roll call vote in the Tennessee House to better understand the role of constituent, legislator, and special interest influences on support for school choice. This is accomplished using a binary probit model with legislator vote as the dependent variable. We find that legislator voting behavior in this context is most significantly determined by party affiliation and the presence of campaign funding from the Tennessee Education Association (TEA) rather than the demographic characteristics of their constituents.
{"title":"Determinants of Voting on Education Savings Accounts: Evidence from Tennessee","authors":"Ben Luikart, Joshua C. Hall, Joshua Martin","doi":"10.1080/15582159.2022.2132589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2022.2132589","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tennessee passed voucher-style Education Savings Account (ESA) legislation in 2019. We analyze the roll call vote in the Tennessee House to better understand the role of constituent, legislator, and special interest influences on support for school choice. This is accomplished using a binary probit model with legislator vote as the dependent variable. We find that legislator voting behavior in this context is most significantly determined by party affiliation and the presence of campaign funding from the Tennessee Education Association (TEA) rather than the demographic characteristics of their constituents.","PeriodicalId":34913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of School Choice","volume":"17 1","pages":"439 - 447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46058866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2135843
Steven F. Duvall, J. Mason
After reading Homeschooling and child safety: Are kids safer at home? (Dills, 2022), it was not surprising to find that homeschoolers were as safe from caregiver abuse as students who were under the care of others at school. Even so, some of the author’s conclusions go beyond the data and could lead others to misperceive the findings. the complexities of how child maltreatment is reported, defined, and recorded across states. the and of and the is accurate comparing the rates of child maltreatment before the liberalizing of homeschooling laws to post-liberalization rates, it may be possible to discern a statistically significant connection between the two after controlling for a host of other variables. As summed up in the abstract, Dills found that most of her estimates were not statistically significant. In other words, caregiver maltreatment did not change post-liberalization. important finding. the abstract further stated that “some specifications find a statistically significant increase in child homicide rates in the years following homeschool legislation.” will likely cap-ture the and because it appears in the many lay will not go further. Dills goes on to say that the estimated effects tend to be small and not statistically significant, suggesting little effect on child safety. These results
{"title":"Homeschooled Children are as Safe from Caregiver Abuse as Other Children and May Be Generally Safer: A Response to Dills (2022)","authors":"Steven F. Duvall, J. Mason","doi":"10.1080/15582159.2022.2135843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2022.2135843","url":null,"abstract":"After reading Homeschooling and child safety: Are kids safer at home? (Dills, 2022), it was not surprising to find that homeschoolers were as safe from caregiver abuse as students who were under the care of others at school. Even so, some of the author’s conclusions go beyond the data and could lead others to misperceive the findings. the complexities of how child maltreatment is reported, defined, and recorded across states. the and of and the is accurate comparing the rates of child maltreatment before the liberalizing of homeschooling laws to post-liberalization rates, it may be possible to discern a statistically significant connection between the two after controlling for a host of other variables. As summed up in the abstract, Dills found that most of her estimates were not statistically significant. In other words, caregiver maltreatment did not change post-liberalization. important finding. the abstract further stated that “some specifications find a statistically significant increase in child homicide rates in the years following homeschool legislation.” will likely cap-ture the and because it appears in the many lay will not go further. Dills goes on to say that the estimated effects tend to be small and not statistically significant, suggesting little effect on child safety. These results","PeriodicalId":34913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of School Choice","volume":"16 1","pages":"555 - 558"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42885514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2135842
Gary W. Houchens
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2135845
Gary Ritter
{"title":"Review of A Search for Common Ground: Conversations about the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education","authors":"Gary Ritter","doi":"10.1080/15582159.2022.2135845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2022.2135845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of School Choice","volume":"16 1","pages":"678 - 680"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47748114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2135844
Angela K. Dills
Safety remains a key concern for parents and education policy makers. Homeschooling opponents argue that child abusers use homeschooling to isolate and harm their children while public school teachers and administrators, as mandatory reporters, reduce child maltreatment. Supporters of homeschooling argue that public schools expose children to bullying from their peers and that some school employees also mistreat children. In the 1980s and 1990s, most states adopted legislation clarifying a legal path for homeschooling. I conduct two-way fixed effects and event study analyses of the effect of home- school rules on measures of child safety. Although most estimates are not statistically significant, some specifications find a statistically significant increase in child homicide rates in the years following homeschool legislation. Better understanding how a variety of educational options affect children’s safety continues to be a pressing aspect of education policy.
{"title":"Homeschooling and Child Safety: Are Kids Safer at Home?","authors":"Angela K. Dills","doi":"10.1080/15582159.2022.2135844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2022.2135844","url":null,"abstract":"Safety remains a key concern for parents and education policy makers. Homeschooling opponents argue that child abusers use homeschooling to isolate and harm their children while public school teachers and administrators, as mandatory reporters, reduce child maltreatment. Supporters of homeschooling argue that public schools expose children to bullying from their peers and that some school employees also mistreat children. In the 1980s and 1990s, most states adopted legislation clarifying a legal path for homeschooling. I conduct two-way fixed effects and event study analyses of the effect of home- school rules on measures of child safety. Although most estimates are not statistically significant, some specifications find a statistically significant increase in child homicide rates in the years following homeschool legislation. Better understanding how a variety of educational options affect children’s safety continues to be a pressing aspect of education policy.","PeriodicalId":34913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of School Choice","volume":"16 1","pages":"559 - 561"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44887525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2113011
Matthew H. Lee, Eric Price, Lynn E. Swaner
{"title":"The Effect of Private School Choice Regulations on School Participation: Experimental Evidence from the Christian School Sector","authors":"Matthew H. Lee, Eric Price, Lynn E. Swaner","doi":"10.1080/15582159.2022.2113011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2022.2113011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of School Choice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49577746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2108879
B. Ray, M. Shakeel
ABSTRACT Opponents of homeschooling associate it with unchecked and unreported abuse and neglect of children, often arguing for more regulation of or an outright ban of home education. Do homeschool students experience more maltreatment than those in schools and, if so, is it happening in or outside the home? Empirical evidence to answer this question is lacking, data collection during schooling age poses several constraints, and school-age children may under-report incidences due to fear. To address this gap in information and literature, we draw nationally representative data from 1,253 previously homeschooled and conventionally schooled (public and private schools) adults to anonymously report about their abuse and neglect experiences during school age. Cross-sectional findings suggest that school sector is a non-issue after considering the role played by demographics (e.g., family structure, years in foster care, large family size, and household poverty) in the maltreatment of children. The incidences of abuse and neglect for homeschool children are statistically significant only at community or some type of school, and the occurrence rates there are double or more than at family where the rate is not significant. Results suggest that policymakers should consider the larger role of demographics in framing policies to protect children from abuse and neglect.
{"title":"Demographics are Predictive of Child Abuse and Neglect but Homeschool Versus Conventional School is a Non-issue: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey","authors":"B. Ray, M. Shakeel","doi":"10.1080/15582159.2022.2108879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2022.2108879","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Opponents of homeschooling associate it with unchecked and unreported abuse and neglect of children, often arguing for more regulation of or an outright ban of home education. Do homeschool students experience more maltreatment than those in schools and, if so, is it happening in or outside the home? Empirical evidence to answer this question is lacking, data collection during schooling age poses several constraints, and school-age children may under-report incidences due to fear. To address this gap in information and literature, we draw nationally representative data from 1,253 previously homeschooled and conventionally schooled (public and private schools) adults to anonymously report about their abuse and neglect experiences during school age. Cross-sectional findings suggest that school sector is a non-issue after considering the role played by demographics (e.g., family structure, years in foster care, large family size, and household poverty) in the maltreatment of children. The incidences of abuse and neglect for homeschool children are statistically significant only at community or some type of school, and the occurrence rates there are double or more than at family where the rate is not significant. Results suggest that policymakers should consider the larger role of demographics in framing policies to protect children from abuse and neglect.","PeriodicalId":34913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of School Choice","volume":"17 1","pages":"176 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44049536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-22DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2110460
David T. Marshall, Natalie M. Neugebauer, Lifei Huang, Jamison White
ABSTRACT Ample research has explored the nature and efficacy of urban charter schools since the turn of the century. However, much less attention has been given to the rural charter school sector. Using data obtained from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools from the 2018–2019 school year, we describe rural charter schools nationally in terms of the students they serve, school-level characteristics, and how innovative they are in their curricula, pedagogical foci, and the student populations they enroll. We then compare states in terms of the statewide policies that have been enacted. Compared to their rural traditional public school counterparts, rural charters enroll more nonwhite students and fewer students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Almost half of all rural charters are located in five states, and rural charters are more likely to have non-traditional grade configurations compared to schools in other geographic settings. Most rural charter schools are not affiliated with a CMO or EMO. Hawaii has the largest market share of rural charter school students and also has the greatest proportion of its charter schools located in rural areas. States that do not place caps on the number of charter schools that open were found to have more of their charter schools located in rural areas.
{"title":"Describing Rural Charter Schools in the United States","authors":"David T. Marshall, Natalie M. Neugebauer, Lifei Huang, Jamison White","doi":"10.1080/15582159.2022.2110460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2022.2110460","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ample research has explored the nature and efficacy of urban charter schools since the turn of the century. However, much less attention has been given to the rural charter school sector. Using data obtained from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools from the 2018–2019 school year, we describe rural charter schools nationally in terms of the students they serve, school-level characteristics, and how innovative they are in their curricula, pedagogical foci, and the student populations they enroll. We then compare states in terms of the statewide policies that have been enacted. Compared to their rural traditional public school counterparts, rural charters enroll more nonwhite students and fewer students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Almost half of all rural charters are located in five states, and rural charters are more likely to have non-traditional grade configurations compared to schools in other geographic settings. Most rural charter schools are not affiliated with a CMO or EMO. Hawaii has the largest market share of rural charter school students and also has the greatest proportion of its charter schools located in rural areas. States that do not place caps on the number of charter schools that open were found to have more of their charter schools located in rural areas.","PeriodicalId":34913,"journal":{"name":"Journal of School Choice","volume":"16 1","pages":"562 - 587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46078463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1080/15582159.2022.2110670
Scott T. Justice, D. Hermanson, Alex Helms
ABSTRACT We survey 137 charter school administrators and 129 board members and find that U.S. charter school internal controls are perceived to be relatively strong overall. However, board independence, board communication of internal control responsibilities to school personnel, lines of communication between the board and school personnel, and reporting lines that allow the board to assess the school’s activities are perceived to be weakest in comparison to other internal controls. We also find that board members have more positive views than administrators regarding the strength of several of the internal controls examined. We discuss implications and several avenues for future research.
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