Mapping the Profit Motive: The Distinct Geography and Demography of For-Profit Charter Schools

Autor/in	Robertson, W. Brett
Titel	Mapping the Profit Motive: The Distinct Geography and Demography of For-Profit Charter Schools
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23 (2015) 69, (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068 2341
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Proprietary Schools; Demography; School Location; Disadvantaged Youth; Student Characteristics; Comparative Analysis; Models; Geographic Information Systems; Nonprofit Organizations; School Choice; Urban Education; Educational Policy; Social Stratification; Educational Administration; Educational History; State Policy; Predictor Variables; Regression (Statistics); Racial Factors; Socioeconomic Influences; Ownership; Housing; Racial Composition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Demografie; Schulgelände; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Analogiemodell; Nonprofit-Organisation; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Prädiktor; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Eigentum; Unterkunft
Abstract	For-profit charter schools represent a controversial new market-based education reform (Garcia, Barber, & Molnar, 2009; Conn, 2002). This essay explores how schools operated by for-profit corporations differ from those operated by non-profit organizations. Specifically, do for-profit charter schools locate in demographically distinct areas and serve different student populations than similar schools operated by non-profit providers? Research suggests that charter school operators in some districts appear to strategically locate their schools in an effort to exclude certain student populations (Lubienski, Gulosino, & Weitzel, 2009). If charter schools seek to exclude certain students, as these schools proliferate in a district or region there may be an intensifying stratification effect detrimental to the most disadvantaged students (Bifulco, Ladd, & Ross, 2009). This essay undertakes a broad comparative analysis of the neighborhood demographic and student population characteristics of charter schools operated by for-profit corporations and nonprofit organizations, using multilevel modeling and geographic information systems, to compare the two school types across dissimilar state contexts. In so doing, the study seeks to isolate the impact of a school being operated by a forprofit corporation and illuminate what impact the proliferation of for-profit schools might have on the distribution of student populations across regions. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01