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Catt, Andrew D.; Shaw, Michael – EdChoice, 2018
Indiana's Schooling Deserts uses Geographic Information System (GIS) software to generate drive-time distances to different schooling types to examine the state's robust K-12 choice environment, under which more than 100,000 families are choosing a school for their children other than one that has been residentially assigned. The maps produced for…
Descriptors: School Choice, Proximity, Elementary Secondary Education, School Location
Skinner, Rebecca R. – Congressional Research Service, 2019
The primary source of federal aid to elementary and secondary education is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--particularly its Title I-A program, which authorizes federal aid for the education of disadvantaged students. This report provides a brief overview of major provisions of the ESEA. It is organized by title and part of the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Suffren, Quentin; Wallace, Teodore J. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2010
For too long, youngsters in Ohio's major cities have been ill-served and ill-educated by their public schools. In the 2008-09 school year, almost half of these quarter million students--in district and charter schools alike--attended schools rated "D" or "F" by the state. Yet this bleak picture has some bright spots--schools…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Magnet Schools
Penta, Mary Q. – 2001
This evaluation provides an overview of demographic characteristics and student achievement outcomes among Wake Country Public School System (WCPSS) elementary schools when these schools are categorized as schools of choice (program magnets and calendar magnets) or traditional schools (nonmagnets). Data were drawn from school-level outcomes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Elementary Education, Magnet Schools