Special Education Identification in the Louisiana Scholarship Program. Technical Report. Louisiana Scholarship Program Evaluation Report #8

Autor/inn/en	Tuchman, Sivan; Wolf, Patrick J.
Institution	University of Arkansas, School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP); Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA)
Titel	Special Education Identification in the Louisiana Scholarship Program. Technical Report. Louisiana Scholarship Program Evaluation Report #8
Quelle	(2017), (41 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Scholarships; Special Education; Educational Vouchers; Private School Aid; School Choice; Private Schools; Disability Identification; Enrollment; Charter Schools; Disabilities; Educational Legislation; Equal Education; Federal Legislation; State Departments of Education; Selective Admission; Competitive Selection; Admission (School); Civil Rights Legislation; Educational Quality; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scholarship; Stipendium; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Private school; Privatschule; Einschulung; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Handicap; Behinderung; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bundesrecht; Kultusministerium; Bildungsselektion; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität
Abstract	The debate over school vouchers continues as more states offer government dollars to fund private schooling for students as a method of improving choice and quality in K-12 education. Previous research in the charter school sector has found that special education enrollment discrepancies between charters and traditional public schools is likely due to a mixture in parental choice making, differential identification practices, and the removal of special education labels. This study is the first experimental analysis of the impact of a enrollment in a private school choice program on special education identification and de-identification. Using data for almost 2,000 students who were randomly assigned to private schools in the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), we find no statistically significant over impact of enrollment in a student's first choice school on being either identified or de-identified in special education. Analyzing annual trends results in lower probabilities of identification for students in the LSP in Year 2 and Year 3 of the program and higher probabilities of de-identification in Year 2. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	School Choice Demonstration Project. Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas, 201 Graduate Education Building, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Tel: 479-575-3172; Fax: 479-575-3196; e-mail: edreform@uark.edu; Web site: http://www.uaedreform.org/scho
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01