Charter Schools, Equity, and Student Enrollments: The Role of For-Profit Educational Management Organizations

Autor/inn/en	Ertas, Nevbahar; Roch, Christine H.
Titel	Charter Schools, Equity, and Student Enrollments: The Role of For-Profit Educational Management Organizations
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 46 (2014) 5, S.548-579 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124512458118
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Equal Education; Enrollment; Disadvantaged Youth; Student Recruitment; Comparative Analysis; Low Income Groups; African American Students; Statistical Surveys; Educational Policy; School Choice; School Administration; Accountability; Governance; Geographic Location; Nonprofit Organizations; Hispanic American Students; Models; Predictor Variables; Regression (Statistics); Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Einschulung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Statistische Erhebung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Verantwortung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Nonprofit-Organisation; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Analogiemodell; Prädiktor; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	For-profit educational management organizations (EMOs) are a growing phenomenon in public education, and they are an integral part of charter school reform in many states. Research suggests that charter schools operated by for-profit entities may take a more entrepreneurial approach when expanding their operations and thus may be more inclined to serve less disadvantaged and less costly students. In this article, we examine empirically whether charter schools are less likely to serve disadvantaged students by comparing the distribution of students across traditional public schools, nonprofit charter schools, and those managed by private companies. We base our analysis on data from the National Center of Education Statistics' (NCES) Common Core Data (CCD), and we combine this data with information on the types of management organizations operating charter schools. Our results suggest that charter schools managed by EMOs draw students differently to their schools than those charter schools not managed by EMOs. They seem to seek out more Black students but are also focused on selecting fewer poor students than we see among regular public schools. When examining differences in the size of EMOs, we find that these effects appear most likely to occur among schools operated by large-sized EMOs. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10