Charter School Funding: Little Progress towards Equity in the City

Autor/inn/en	Johnson, Alison Heape; McGee, Josh B.; Wolf, Patrick J.; May, Jay F.; Maloney, Larry D.
Institution	University of Arkansas, School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP)
Titel	Charter School Funding: Little Progress towards Equity in the City
Quelle	(2023), (70 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Charter Schools; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Expenditure per Student; Public Schools; Urban Schools; Student Characteristics; Traditional Schools; Income; Educational Equity (Finance); State Aid; Federal Aid; Private Financial Support + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Traditioneller Unterricht; Einkommen; Private Investition
Abstract	This study examines charter school funding equity in 18 cities using 2019-20 data, the most recent available. The study uses official school district and state budget documents to capture every dollar flowing to schools, including in-kind services. The study answers the following questions: (1) What is the difference in per-pupil revenue between traditional public schools (TPS) and charter schools in major US cities in the 2019-20 school year? (2) Do differences in student demographics explain any funding differences between TPS and charter schools? (3) Does the relationship between TPS and charter school funding vary across categories of school revenue? and (4) Which cities are driving the results? Findings reveal that: (1) Charter school students across 18 cities receive an average of 30 percent less funding per pupil than students in TPS in 17 of those cities; (2) About 65 percent of the underfunding of public charter schools in the cities can be attributed to lower enrollments of students with disabilities in the charter sector; and (3) Charter schools receive less local funding, state funding, federal funding, and nonpublic funding than TPS. (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: https://scdp.uark.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01