School's Choice: How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

by Wagma Mommandi and Kevin Welner

Access issues are pivotal to almost all charter school tensions and debates. How well are these schools performing? Are they segregating and stratifying? Are they public and democratic? Are they fairly funded? Can apparent successes be scaled up? Answers to all these core questions hinge on how access to charter schools is shaped. This book describes the incentives and pressures on charter schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807765813
• ISBN13: 9780807765814
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"