Parents who had positive experiences in school often select schools for their children that are similar to the ones they attended – but if they had a bad experience they avoid those kinds of schools.
In a study, teachers who are parents acknowledged programs of choice separate students into cohorts labelled strong and weak, yet many continue to secure spots for their own children.
Building trusting relations among teachers, parents, a community and school administrators is important when schools enter decision-making processes about programs of choice.
A study finds that graduates who attended publicly funded schools were more likely to have open intercultural orientations than those who attended private schools.
Charter school enrollment grew during the pandemic. But behind these schools’ rising popularity is a history of harsh discipline, inaccessibility and targeted marketing.
Jon Hale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Howard Fuller’s support for school choice is connected to the Black Power movement and a pursuit to provide Black students a quality education by any means necessary.
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
The push to expand charter schools in the U.S. contributed to a robust movement of teachers’ unions and allies demanding a well-resourced public school system.
First, the United Conservative Party lifted the cap on charter schools, and now new legislation has cut school boards out of the process to establish a charter school.