COMPETITION IN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS: CHARTER SCHOOL ENTRY, STUDENT SORTING, AND SCHOOL INPUT DETERMINATION

Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Achievement in Michigan

Proponents of school reform have argued that charter schools and vouchers can provide adequate market pressure to improve the performance of traditional public schools. While the number of charter schools and student enrollment have burgeoned, relatively little attention has been paid to their effects on student achievement. Proponents of charter schools suggest a direct effect on student achie...

Charter School Growth and Replication

CHARTER SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY AND COMPETITION Theory versus Reality in Charter Schools in Colombia

Charter schools are among the most prevalent public-private partnerships in the education sector. Too frequently, charter schools are assessed only by measuring outputs such as enrollment and test scores. This paper assesses the logic model behind charter schools, specifically the mechanisms of accountability and competition. This paper examines these mechanisms through study of the Concession ...

School Reform, School Size, and Student Achievement

by Randall W. Eberts, Ellen Kehoe Schwartz, and Joe A. Stone Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Ellen Kehoe Schwartz is a research evaluator with the General Accounting Office; and Joe A. Stone is the W.E. Miner Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Ed...

Does Public School Competition Affect Teacher Quality?

Under most conceivable scenarios of expanded choice, even with private school vouchers, the public school system will still remain the majority supplier of schooling. Therefore, it is important to know what might happen to quality and outcomes in the remaining public schools. This paper examines the effect of public school competition on academic achievement. The empirical analysis has two majo...