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Trujillo, Gabriel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Parents of school-aged children currently find themselves with a wide range of school choice to meet their social, philological, and educational needs. The parents that opt to invoke their choice option are willing to pay tuition, travel greater distances and/or relocate their families for better schools or educational opportunities. In many…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Open Enrollment, School Districts
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Ebersole, John – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2010
America does not have the workforce it needs for the economy that it has. That was a conclusion of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education in 2006. The Commission went on to note that if current trends are not reversed, the US economy and per capita income will actually decrease over the next 15 years, for the first time in US history. In…
Descriptors: Transfer Policy, Open Enrollment, Open Universities, Institutional Characteristics
East Hartford Board of Education, CT. – 1974
Open enrollment is a concept concerned with a student's access to schools. In general, it reflects the possibility of parents exercising choice when enrolling children in schools. In East Hartford, parents may seek permission to transfer a youngster to a different school if that school has space for him; however, the parent must provide the…
Descriptors: Community Control, Educational Vouchers, Equal Education, Feasibility Studies
Rochester City School District, NY. – 1969
This is an interim report of the second full year of the "Fifteen Point Plan." Although majority of comparisons between groups shows no significant statistical differences, differentials in achievement may become more noticeable as the program effects are reinforced with time, and through cumulative experience. From data analyzed after…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Black Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1991
This paper discusses implications of open enrollment polices for students with disabilities and for districts that gain or lose students with disabilities through transfer. An introductory section examines how open enrollment differs from other "choice" options and offers general arguments for and against open enrollment. The remainder of the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
FISHER, JOHN H.; AND OTHERS – 1964
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE EVALUATED SUCH EXISTING DESEGREGATION EFFORTS AS OPEN ENROLLMENT, ZONING, THE FREE CHOICE TRANSFER POLICY, FEEDER PATTERN CHANGES, AND PAIRING PROPOSALS. THEY DECIDED THAT DESEGREGATION WOULD NOT BE EFFECTIVE UNLESS OTHER MEASURES WERE UNDERTAKEN. RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDED ESTABLISHING COMPREHENSIVE 4-YEAR HIGH SCHOOLS BUILT…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Desegregation Effects, Equal Education, Feeder Patterns
District Court, New York, NY. Eastern District of New York. – 1974
Plaintiffs are students enrolled in Franklin K. Lane High School, and they sue on behalf of all others similarly situated for an adjudication that their school has been so zoned as to make and keep it a segregated school in spite of its location. They moved to enjoin further enforcement of the school's zoning. The board moved for summary judgment.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation
Lange, Cheryl M.; And Others – 1995
The expectations of parents of students with disabilities who transferred schools through an open enrollment option were examined in this qualitative study. In-depth interviews were conducted with parents of 18 children and adolescents who transferred their child through Minnesota's open enrollment law. Interviews addressed: the student's history…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Decision Making, Disabilities, Educational Policy
Lange, Cheryl M.; And Others – 1995
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…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Educational Trends