The Evolution of School Choice Consumers: Parent and Student Voices on the Second Year of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. SCDP Report 0701

Autor/inn/en	Cornman, Stephen Q.; Stewart, Thomas; Wolf, Patrick J.
Institution	University of Arkansas, School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP)
Titel	The Evolution of School Choice Consumers: Parent and Student Voices on the Second Year of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. SCDP Report 0701
Quelle	(2007), (112 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Pilot Projects; School Choice; Focus Groups; Economically Disadvantaged; Scholarship Funds; Educational Vouchers; Interviews; Scholarships; School Restructuring; Educational Opportunities; Consumer Economics; Barriers; Parent Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Program Attitudes; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Change Strategies; Educational Change; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Scholarship; Stipendium; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Konsumökonomie; Elternverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform
Abstract	On January 23, 2004, President Bush signed the DC School Choice Incentive Act into law. This landmark piece of legislation included $14 million in funding for what would come to be called the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The OSP is the first federally funded K-12 scholarship program in the country and is designed to provide approximately 1,700 low-income DC children with tuition scholarships worth up to $7,500 to cover the costs of attending participating K-12 nonpublic schools in the District. The pilot program is authorized to operate for five years and is being implemented by a group of non-profit organizations headed by the Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF). In addition to extending educational choices to an economically disadvantaged group of DC families, the OSP also provides the opportunity to learn more about what happens when more families have the opportunity and responsibility to choose a private school for their children. The U.S. Department of Education, through the Institute for Education Sciences, has contracted for the conduct of a rigorous experimental evaluation of the impact of the Program on a number of student outcomes including student achievement. In this report, the authors provide information from a separate, independent, qualitative assessment of how families are experiencing the Program, including why they are seeking choice, how they are selecting schools, what challenges they are facing, and how parents, students, schools, and the OSP are working to try to realize the goals of the Program. Included in the report is information about what seems to be working well, what problems have been encountered along the way, and recommendations from parents and students regarding how the Program can better serve their needs. The information presented in this report was gleaned from 28 personal interviews in the fall of 2005 and 12 focus groups conducted in the spring of 2006 with the parents and older students of approximately 100 families participating in the OSP. Appendices include: (1) Tables by family segments; and (2) Methodology. (Contains 4 tables, 2 figures and 160 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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.uark.edu/ua/der/SCDP.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10