Public School Response to Special Education Vouchers: The Impact of Florida's McKay Scholarship Program on Disability Diagnosis and Student Achievement in Public Schools

Autor/inn/en	Winters, Marcus A.; Greene, Jay P.
Titel	Public School Response to Special Education Vouchers: The Impact of Florida's McKay Scholarship Program on Disability Diagnosis and Student Achievement in Public Schools
Quelle	In: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 33 (2011) 2, S.138-158 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0162-3737
DOI	10.3102/0162373711404220
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Public Schools; Mild Disabilities; School Choice; Scholarships; Educational Vouchers; Special Education; Academic Achievement; Educational Diagnosis; Disability Identification; Accessibility (for Disabled); Educational Quality; Competition; Test Results; Student Records; Statistical Analysis; Policy Analysis; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Scholarship; Stipendium; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Schulleistung; Pedagogical diagnostics; Pädagogische Diagnostik; Accessibility; Zugänglichkeit; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Wettkampf; Schülerakte; Statistische Analyse; Politikfeldanalyse; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator
Abstract	The authors expand on research evaluating public school response to school choice policies by considering the particular influence of voucher programs for disabled students--a growing type of choice program that may have different implications for public school systems from those of more conventional choice programs. The authors provide a theoretical framework to show that special education vouchers could influence both school quality and the likelihood that a school will choose to identify the marginal child as disabled. Using a rich panel data set from Florida, the authors find some evidence that competition from a voucher program for disabled students decreased the likelihood that a student was diagnosed as having a mild disability and was positively related to academic achievement in the public schools. (Contains 11 tables and 14 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10