Charter schools and special education for disabled students are founded on conflicting education reforms and agency … oversight principles. Charter schools operate in a culture of regulatory freedom and flexibility. They arose out of the modern … culture of regulatory oversight focused on rigid compliance with complex procedures. Special education and charter schools …

smoothed the road to high school. The ungraded method of one-room schools became obsolete. By 1970, 200,000 one-room schools … voluntarily gave up their beloved one-room schools because their children were deterred from attending high school and because … potential buyers of their property were put off by nonstandard schools. Districts that were not “making the grade” were …

considerable resources on building and equipping schools and paying teachers have contributed to global convergence in enrollment …

order to improve disadvantaged students' access to education in public schools …

schools that decide to participate in school voucher programs in seven locations. Regression analysis indicates that more … specialized private schools are less likely to participate in voucher programs than regular private schools. Specifically, the … preferred model finds that private schools that identify as Montessori, special education, and alternative are less likely to …

behavior without imparting harm. This study examines Chicago Public Schools' adoption of RP. We identify decreased suspensions …

difference-in-differences design that compares changes in outcomes for ZOC schools and demographically similar non-ZOC schools …-performing schools. We interpret these findings through the lens of a model of school demand in which schools exert costly effort to … preferences and the spatial distribution of schools. We demonstrate that the effects of ZOC were larger for schools exposed to …

across schools with higher levels of funds targeted at more deprived schools. Real-terms increases in funding per pupil were … much larger for the most deprived group of primary and secondary schools (83% and 93%, respectively) as compared with the … least deprived primary and secondary schools (56% and 59%). In this paper, we decompose these increases in funding per pupil …

the recent past amongst advanced countries – the introduction of academy schools to English secondary education. Academies … are state schools that are allowed to run in an autonomous manner which is free from local authority control. Almost all … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our …