Families' Experiences on the New Frontier of Educational Choice: Findings from a Survey of K-12 Parents in Arizona

Autor/inn/en	Catt, Andrew D.; Cheng, Albert
Institution	EdChoice
Titel	Families' Experiences on the New Frontier of Educational Choice: Findings from a Survey of K-12 Parents in Arizona
Quelle	(2019), (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Family Influence; Family Relationship; School Choice; Parent Surveys; Elementary Secondary Education; Parents; Tuition; Tax Credits; Scholarships; Money Management; Investment; Student Financial Aid; Educational Environment; Parent Participation; Empowerment; Satisfaction; Parent Attitudes; Private Schools; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Access to Education; Fees; Special Needs Students; Foster Care; At Risk Students; Low Income Students; Comparative Analysis; School Safety; Discipline; Educational Quality; Arizona + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Eltern; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Steuerermäßigung; Scholarship; Stipendium; Investments; Geldanlage; Investiton; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Elternmitwirkung; Zufriedenheit; Elternverhalten; Private school; Privatschule; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Pflegehilfe; Disziplin; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität
Abstract	Arizona is arguably the nation's most innovative state for educational choice. It has a thriving charter school sector that serves 16 percent of the state's students in 556 charter schools. The state has also launched several groundbreaking programs for families to attend private schools. In 1997, Arizona passed the nation's first tax-credit scholarship (TCS) program, and the state's four TCS programs awarded 73,566 scholarships in 2015-16 for attendance at private schools to students with special needs, students in foster care, students from low-income families, and other highly vulnerable student populations. In 2011, Arizona became the first state to enact an education savings account (ESA) program. Referred to as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, the program currently provides up to 90 percent of a child's state-level per-pupil funding allotment to more than 6,000 families for private school tuition, online learning, educational therapy, tutoring, fees at postsecondary institutions, and other individual educational needs. In this report, the authors seek to broaden understanding of Arizona's school choice programs by analyzing a large survey of 3,577 parents with children in K-12 schools throughout the state. Their analyses compare rates of parental involvement at home and at school as well as parent perceptions of school safety, relationships, discipline, and the overall quality of the learning environment across the following five groups of parents: (1) traditional public school parents; (2) charter school parents; (3) current private school parents using an ESA; (4) current private school parents using a TCS; and (5) private school parents who do not use ESA or TCS programs (i.e. non-program). (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01