Do Public School Choice Policies Segregate Schools? Dynamic Effects in Michigan

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Danielle Edwards, Old Dominion University

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Project Citation: 

Edwards, Danielle. Do Public School Choice Policies Segregate Schools? Dynamic Effects in Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-12-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E212584V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Inter-district choice has the potential to exacerbate or alleviate between-district segregation-an increasingly pervasive form of U.S. school segregation-by allowing students to attend schools in districts where they do not reside. Prior research concentrates on the effects of charter schooling on segregation within districts and counties. We use longitudinal enrollment and demographic data from Michigan to examine the impacts of both inter-district and charter school choice on racial and economic segregation within and between districts in a single setting. We estimate these effects by leveraging between-grade differences in choice use within school systems and years. We confirm findings from previous research that increases in charter school enrollment increase within-district racial and economic segregation. We also find that the effects of inter-district choice on both within- and between-district segregation vary with the presence of charter schools. 
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources United States Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences (R305C180025)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms school choice; school segregation; inter-district choice; charter school choice
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Michigan
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2009 – 2019 (2009-10 to 2018-19 school years)
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2009 – 2019 (Data were collected multiple times a year by the Michigan Dept. of Education and the Center for Educational Performance Information)
Universe:  View help for Universe We use data from all students attending K-12 public schools in Michigan to create district-by-grade-by year and intermediate school district-by-grade-by-year datasets.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; geographic information system (GIS) data

Methodology

Sampling:  View help for Sampling To construct our district-by-grade-by-year and ISD-by-grade-by-year analytic samples, we begin with 61,941 and 6,578 observations respectively. First, we exclude 41,340 (67%) district-by-grade-by-year observations and zero ISD-by-grade-by-year observations that do not have at least two brick and mortar sub-systems (i.e., schools when the school system is district, districts when the school system is ISD) offering general education for grade g in year t. We only include observations where all sub-systems in the school system have at least 10 students in grade g in year t in our analytic sample because movement of just one or two students could create very large swings in our segregation measures. This requirement excludes 3,778 (6%) district-by-grade-by-year observations and 1,144 (17%) ISD-by-grade-by-year observations. 
Data Source:  View help for Data Source Data used are structured and maintained by the MERI-Michigan Education Data Center (MEDC). They were collected  by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and/or Michigan’s Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI). 
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) other
Scales:  View help for Scales N/A
Weights:  View help for Weights N/A
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation intermediate school district-by-grade-by-year, district-by-grade-by-year
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit school district

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