Koedel, Cory, Betts, Julian R., Rice, Lorien A., & Zau, Andrew C.
University Affiliation: University of Missouri
Email: koedelc@missouri.edu
Research Question:
Evaluates the effects of three San Diego, California school choice programs on integration by race, student achievement and parental education levels.
Published: 0
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: N/A
Journal Entry: April
Year: 2010
Findings:
- Students use all three choice programs to attend schools that are more socioeconomically advantaged than their local schools. Therefore, participation by minority and disadvantaged students exerts integrating pressure on the district, and participation by advantaged students, who are also seeking to improve the socioeconomic status of their peers, exerts segregating pressure.
- The VEEP and magnet programs integrate SDUSD by race, student achievement and parental-education status.
- The open-enrollment program segregates students across all three dimensions of integration.
- Minority and disadvantaged students are consistently over-represented in VEEP, (roughly) fairly-represented in magnet, and under-represented in open enrollment.
- VEEP and magnet programs increase the exposure of whites to non-whites, and vice-versa.
- The open-enrollment program increases the exposure of whites to Asians but segregates whites from blacks and Hispanics. Notably, Asian students at SDUSD are much less likely to be disadvantaged than other non-white groups.
- Looking specifically at the change in exposure between students from high and low parental education families, the effects of the choice programs seem fairly mild and again, the open-enrollment program applies segregating pressure.