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来源

EDUCATION AND URBAN SOCIETY,Vol.49,Issue3,P.271-296

语言

英文

关键字

racial stratification; vouchers; school choice; systemic effects; segregation; SEGREGATION; CHOICE

作者单位

[Egalite, Anna J.] North Carolina State Univ, Dept Educ Leadership Policy & Human Dev, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA. [Mills, Jonathan N.] Tulane Univ, Educ Res Alliance New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA. [Wolf, Patrick J.] Univ Arkansas, Educ Policy, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA. [Wolf, Patrick J.] Univ Arkansas, Sch Choice, Dept Educ Reform, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA. Egalite, AJ (reprint author), North Carolina State Univ, Dept Educ Leadership Policy & Human Dev, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA. E-Mail: Anna_Egalite@ncsu.edu

摘要

The question of how school choice programs affect the racial stratification of schools is highly salient in the field of education policy. We use a student-level panel data set to analyze the impacts of the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) on racial stratification in public and private schools. This targeted school voucher program provides funding for low-income, mostly minority students in the lowest-graded public schools to enroll in participating private schools. Our analysis indicates that the vast majority (82%) of LSP transfers have reduced racial stratification in the voucher students' former public schools. LSP transfers have marginally increased stratification in the participating private schools, however, where just 45% of transfers reduce racial stratification. In those school districts under federal desegregation orders, voucher transfers result in a large reduction in traditional public schools' racial stratification levels and have no discernible impact on private schools. The results of this analysis provide reliable empirical evidence on whether or not parental choice harms desegregation efforts in Louisiana.