This report presents the findings of a student transfer study that attempted to determine the socioeconomic characteristics of parents requesting transfers, the reasons for these requests, the frequency of transfers to different schools, parents' sources of information about transfer possibilities, parents' satisfaction with their children's…

This paper examines the policy implications of school choice opportunites in the public sector, based on a study of the school choice behavior of a group of public school parents residing in areas where they were permitted to choose which of two dissimilar schools their child would attend. Data were gathered through interviews with 48 mothers who…

Racial segregation in housing and racially identifiable schools each contribute to the existence of the other. The case of Milwaukee shows that the Supreme Court's efforts to construe school cases narrowly should fail and that policymakers should take a broad perspective on racial problems. (RLV)

This paper traces the history of a magnet school which opened in 1975 amid claims that it would serve as a model of high quality integrated education but which, three years later, was widely perceived as an overcrowded, predominantly black institution. The local Board of Education decided to open a magnet school in which new teaching techniques…

This qualitative study examined the impact of open enrollment policies in Minnesota on eight school districts with larger than average transfers of students with disabilities. A series of case studies investigated implementation issues, effects on special education programs, effects on decision making in funding and planning, perceptions and…

This document contains the full text of ten case studies prepared by the Syracuse Research Corporation for the purpose of examining the organizational processes involved in effective educational innovation at the school district level. Innovations in two urban districts were examined. In the Syracuse City School District these innovations involved…