Parents Want Their Voices to "Matter": Perspectives on School Enrollment in a Shrinking Urban School District

Autor/inn/en	Shannon-Baker, Peggy; Porfilio, Brad J.; Plough, Bobbie
Titel	Parents Want Their Voices to "Matter": Perspectives on School Enrollment in a Shrinking Urban School District
Quelle	In: Educational Foundations, 33 (2020) 1-4, S.77-94 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1047-8248
Schlagwörter	Parent Attitudes; Declining Enrollment; Urban Schools; School Districts; School Choice; Culturally Relevant Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Decision Making; Parent School Relationship; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elternverhalten; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Kalifornien
Abstract	The purpose of this study is to examine the school selection process of parents whose children attended an urban school district in Northern California. Like numerous urban school districts across the United States, the district highlighted in this study also encountered students exiting its schools for the past decade. The findings shared in this paper from a mixed methods case study of parents whose children attend school in the district. Data were based on a quantitative survey and qualitative focus groups. The data indicate parents consider several key factors when selecting schools for their children including academics, class size, and differentiated instruction and support for their children; the school and administration's relationship to diversity and the community; and the overall enrollment process. The parents' narratives also revealed educational leaders must create a culturally relevant learning community in order to ensure parents, students, and community stakeholders will garner the support, resources, curricula, and learning activities to stop the exodus of children from schools within the school district. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01