The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify factors that influenced parents to enroll and re-enroll their children in charter schools in North Carolina. A survey of 25 items was prepared based on previous work related to parental choice reported in the literature. Parents participating in charter programs rank ordered the reasons why…

Researchers have focused their attention on the subject of special education teacher attrition for many years. While these researchers have made valuable findings, the need to abate the staggering numbers of special education teachers who leave the field still exists. Districts desiring to retain their teachers must place greater emphasis on the…

The plan adopted in this study has been: (1) to make a correlation between the ranking of the various States in each of the items compared; and (2) to compare the various States with each other directly with a reference to the mean of the entire United States in those items. The Pearson coefficient of correlation points out the approximate degree…