× I. Introduction: What are
public school enrollment patterns in the District of Columbia, and what could explain them?
Using data from the U.S. Department of Education for the years 1968, 1980, 1988, 2000, and 2012, Rivkin documents how
public school enrollment patterns have changed over time.
Not exact matches
A pronounced increase in Hispanic and Asian
public -
school enrollment and consequent decline in the white
enrollment share, not a
pattern of resegregation, has driven the fall in the exposure of black students to white schoolmates.
Critiques like this do not deny that KIPP
schools improve the achievement of the students who attend them, but rather argue that these improvements reflect advantageous
enrollment patterns at KIPP that are not possible at traditional
public schools.
But we see similar
patterns in charter
schools too: a number of studies have shown that charter
school students have a higher chance of high
school graduation or college
enrollment even when their test scores do not differ on average from their traditional
public school counterparts.
The difference for this group — participants in the Montana
public schools» most successful online credit recovery programs — seems to be access to teachers who can help them troubleshoot technical difficulties and content - related challenges, according to the study, «Online credit recovery:
Enrollment and passing
patterns in Montana Digital Academy courses,» released last month by REL Northwest, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences serving Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
Similar to boundary participation
patterns, neighborhood characteristics can no longer explain
enrollment at middle and high
public charter
schools.
The findings in this study are based on an analysis of demographic, economic, and other characteristics of 109 neighborhoods around each DCPS in - boundary
school and their relation to
patterns of
enrollment at in - boundary
schools, out - of - boundary
schools, and
public charter
schools.
A generally similar
pattern of results applies to
public charter
schools and open
enrollment.
Her presentation previewed new findings from a study of D.C. students»
enrollment patterns at in - boundary and out - of - boundary
public schools and
public charter
schools that will be published later this month.
If the current
enrollment pattern continues, Boston charter
public schools are on track to serve the same percentage of ELLs as BPS.
In investigating the information available to parents,
enrollment patterns, and cases of attrition of special education students, the current shortcomings of New Orleans»
public schools in providing an equitable
school choice experience to special education students and their families emerge.