School Choice in Indianapolis: Effects of Charter, Magnet, Private, and Traditional Public Schools

Berends, Mark; Waddington, R. Joseph

doi:10.1162/edfp_a_00225

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“…In investigating how voucher effects may differ across types of private schools, we found negative effects in mathematics for both Catholic and other private schools as well as even greater negative effects for other private schools in both math and ELA achievement. These mathematics findings for Catholic and other private schools mirror those we found in previous work on student transfers from public to Catholic and other private schools in Indianapolis (see Berends & Waddington, ). This is a relevant comparison as it takes place in the same state, includes a handful of the same students, and the mechanism of switching from public to private schools is the same.…”

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confidence: 88%

Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program: Achievement Effects for Students in Upper Elementary and Middle School

Waddington¹,

Berends²

2018

J Policy Anal Manage

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This paper examines the impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program on student achievement for low-income students in upper elementary and middle school who used a voucher to transfer from public to private schools during the first four years of the program. We analyzed student-level longitudinal data from public and private schools taking the same statewide standardized assessment. Overall, voucher students experienced an average achievement loss of 0.15 SDs in mathematics during their first year of attending a private school compared with matched students who remained in a public school. This loss persisted regardless of the length of time spent in a private school. In English/Language Arts, we did not observe statistically meaningful effects. Although school vouchers aim to provide greater educational opportunities for students, the goal of improving the academic performance of low-income students who use a voucher to move to a private school has not yet been realized in Indiana. C 2018 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program: Achievement Effects for Students in Upper Elementary and Middle School

Waddington¹,

Berends²

2018

J Policy Anal Manage

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“…Other analyses may also benefit from using these finer distinctions of school types. Major differences between Catholic, Christian, and charter schools were not found in this work, but other research has documented heterogeneities among schools of choice on other student outcomes (Berends & Waddington, 2018). Continuing to examine these heterogeneities would be valuable toward understanding different school environments.…”

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confidence: 75%

Parental Empowerment, Involvement, and Satisfaction: A Comparison of Choosers of Charter, Catholic, Christian, and District-Run Public Schools

Hamlin

Cheng

2019

Educational Administration Quarterly

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Purpose: This study investigates parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction in charter, Catholic, Christian, and district-run public schools. The analyses of these indicators across school types also differentiate parents who chose district-run public schools through residential selection from those who did not. Research Design: A survey of 1,699 parents residing in Indiana was linked to school-level administrative data for the analyses. Parents in schools of choice were first compared with parents in district-run public schools using controls for demographic, school, and geographic characteristics. Parents in schools of choice were then compared with parents who chose district-run public schools through residential selection. Findings: Patterns were largely consistent with charter, Christian, and Catholic schools exhibiting greater parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction relative to district-run public schools. However, when parents in these schools of choice were compared with parents who chose district-run public schools through residential selection, these differences decreased. Strong negative relationships with parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction were observed for parents who did not choose district-run public schools through residential selection. Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of parental selection into district-run public schools through choice of residence—a typically unobserved form of school selection in the literature. In district-run public schools, results suggest that deliberate strategies may be needed to support nonchoosers. Findings also indicate a need for future research on possible approaches that leaders use in different school types that contribute to greater parental empowerment, involvement, and satisfaction.

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“…The negative findings in math for students who switch from a public to a private school with a voucher mirror what we have found using other estimation strategies (Berends and Waddington 2018; Waddington and Berends 2018). Here, we are able to compare the losses of these students with those of other groups of voucher students.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana's Choice Scholarship Program

Austin¹,

Waddington²,

Berends³

2019

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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This article examines the pathways that students can follow within the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program and the associations with their math and English language arts achievement in upper elementary and middle school. We analyze student-level longitudinal data by matching voucher and nonvoucher students to estimate the role of participating in the voucher program, taking advantage of the uniqueness of Indiana public and private schools taking the same standardized assessment over time. The different student pathways for using vouchers are related to student achievement with significant achievement losses for students who switch from a public to a private school with a voucher. Students who have always attended a private school, both before and after receiving a voucher, experience no significant changes in achievement.

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School Choice in Indianapolis: Effects of Charter, Magnet, Private, and Traditional Public Schools

Cited by 27 publications

References 30 publications

Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program: Achievement Effects for Students in Upper Elementary and Middle School

Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program: Achievement Effects for Students in Upper Elementary and Middle School

Parental Empowerment, Involvement, and Satisfaction: A Comparison of Choosers of Charter, Catholic, Christian, and District-Run Public Schools

Voucher Pathways and Student Achievement in Indiana's Choice Scholarship Program

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