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Genevieve Siegel-Hawley – National Education Policy Center, 2024
Housing, land use, and zoning policies are often siloed in such a way that they are considered and addressed separately from school segregation and students' opportunities to learn. But these policy areas can interact in powerful ways. This policy brief attempts to break down those siloes. Drawing on multiple bodies of literature, it explores what…
Descriptors: Land Use, Zoning, Housing, Social Discrimination
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Vivian E. Hamilton – National Education Policy Center, 2024
The issue of parental control over public school curricula has been a longstanding concern, with courts generally limiting the extent of parental influence. While the U.S. Supreme Court recognizes parents' right to choose educational settings, it has not granted them the authority to dictate public school curricula or demand exemptions. Lower…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Parent Rights, Educational Policy
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Chris Saldaña; Anna Deese; Kevin Welner; Kathryn Wiley; Tatianna Grant; Adam York; Michelle Renée Valladares; John Myers – National Education Policy Center, 2024
What would it take to truly close the vast opportunity gaps in pre-K-12 public education in the United States--far beyond the weak standard in common use of "adequacy" based on test scores? This report presents findings from the North Carolina part of a national costing-out study called the "Price of Opportunity," which seeks…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Costs, Educational Resources
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Joshua Cowen; Ryan D. Nowak – National Education Policy Center, 2024
As publicly funded private school tuition systems have expanded, independent research has documented their negative outcomes. However, the prevalence of the programs continues to grow. This brief summarizes the research evidence about vouchers and identifies three areas of policy design that are especially important for student success and a…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Educational Finance, Private School Aid, School Choice
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Luis A. Huerta; Trevor Baisden – National Education Policy Center, 2024
The school-choice landscape in the United States is undergoing a rapid transformation, as states increasingly enact a new form of vouchers called Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Unlike earlier voucher programs, which generally allowed subsidies only for private school tuition, ESAs represent a radically expansive--and potentially very…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Money Management, Private Schools, Home Schooling
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David S. Knight; David DeMatthews – National Education Policy Center, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education has projected enrollment declines over the next decade, leading to budget cuts for school districts, which will be particularly impactful in urban and rural areas serving vulnerable students. As federal COVID-19 funds expire, districts will face challenges in cutting costs, potentially leading to layoffs or school…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Public Schools, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance
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Powers, Jeanne M. – National Education Policy Center, 2023
School ratings are a ubiquitous feature of the U.S. educational system. Alongside state-mandated measures of school performance, non-state organizations such as GreatSchools.org and Niche have created consumer-oriented systems of school ratings that draw on publicly available information about schools. Claiming the purpose of their rating systems…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Equal Education, Race, Ethnicity
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Lewis, Maria M.; Muñiz, Raquel – National Education Policy Center, 2023
When either privileged or under-resourced families navigate gray areas in the law, including federal laws related to students with disabilities such as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, inequities are revealed. Research and emerging trends have raised increasing concerns about unfairness and abuses of disability policies, particularly with…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Alex Molnar Ed. – National Education Policy Center, 2023
Over the past two and a half decades, digital technologies and virtual education have moved quickly to the top of the K-12 public education reform agenda. Proponents, including business leaders, school reform organizations, foundations, and for-profit and nonprofit service providers, argue that virtual technology will revolutionize teaching and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Virtual Schools, Educational Technology, Distance Education
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Jonathan Feingold; Joshua Weishart – National Education Policy Center, 2023
"Discriminatory censorship laws" regulate classroom conversations about racism, gender identity, and other topics targeted in the backlash against efforts toward inclusive classrooms and curricula. This policy brief examines the proliferation of these laws and their impact on K-12 schools, including the creation of hostile learning…
Descriptors: Censorship, Legislation, Social Discrimination, Guidance Objectives
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Baca, Kate; Valladares, Michelle Renée – National Education Policy Center, 2022
This policy memo is centered on student recommendations put forth at the conclusion of a six-week summer institute between the Cuba Independent School District and the University of Colorado Boulder. Students were asked to engage with different research mediums in order to better understand the context of education, its history, and the present…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Partnerships in Education, School Districts, Universities
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Meyer, Elizabeth J.; Leonardi, Bethy; Keenan, Harper B. – National Education Policy Center, 2022
Transgender and nonbinary (collectively referred to here as "trans") students are ill-served by most school environments. They experience challenges trying to navigate institutions that, at best, are poorly designed to support them and that often work against them. Although some districts and states have developed laws and policies to…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy
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Gist, Conra D. – National Education Policy Center, 2022
Grow your own (GYO) programs are designed to recruit, prepare, and place community members as teachers in local schools. They do this through partnerships between educator preparation programs, school districts or local educational agencies, and community-based organizations. The nation is currently seeing new and thoughtful uses of the approach.…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Minority Group Teachers, African American Teachers, Indigenous Personnel
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Welner, Kevin G. – National Education Policy Center, 2022
This policy memo examines some fundamental shifts, along with their real-world implications, within the past 60 years of Supreme Court jurisprudence, up to and including the current "Carson v. Makin" case. The Supreme Court is just a few small steps away from transforming every charter school law in the U.S. into a private-school voucher…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, State Courts, Charter Schools, Federal Legislation
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Gherardi, Stacy – National Education Policy Center, 2022
Today's youth suffer through challenges on multiple fronts. Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic and its related social and educational fallout, they've experienced trauma from increasingly frequent school and community violence, homelessness, family separation related to immigration, and sustained child poverty. Exposure to these and other traumas…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Trauma, Stress Variables, Problems
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