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New Study: How Does School Bus Transportation Affect Student Attendance and Achievement?
This study analyzes how bus eligibility impacts student attendance and achievement in Michigan.
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The mission of REACH is to provide objective, rigorous, and applicable research that informs and improves school choice policy design and implementation to increase opportunities and outcomes for disadvantaged students.
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What Happens When Families Whose Schools Close Receive EdNavigator Support and OneApp Priority?
This study examines enrollment and achievement outcomes for New Orleans students whose schools closed at the end of the 2017-18 school year. In that year, families from closing schools were offered two types of assistance in the form of priority in the centralized enrollment system and help from the nonprofit EdNavigator in selecting their next placement.
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Extreme Measures: A National Descriptive Analysis of Closure and Restructuring of Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools
This study provides the first analysis of closure and restructuring trends for essentially all schools nationwide over the past 30 years. We analyze the annual closure and restructuring rates of all schools across the United States, how these rates changed over time, and what factors predict closure and restructuring.
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How Do Charter Schools Affect Test Scores and Graduation Rates?
In this study, we analyze data from 1995-2016 for all the nation’s publicly funded school systems and find that charter schools increase average graduation rates and math and reading scores across all types of publicly funded schools when charter schools open in their districts.
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States Can Play a Stronger Role in Promoting Equity and Access in School Choice
This study sets out to answer the question: how do state policy makers and education leaders think about school choice policy and how do issues of equity show up in state-level discourse and action?