Exit Only or Revolving Doors: Student Mobility to and from Non-Texas Public Schools and Non-District Charters

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dc.contributor.authorPotter, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorBao, Katharine
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Camila Cigarroa
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-23T14:47:20Z
dc.date.available2024-07-23T14:47:20Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractEvery year, thousands of students leave traditional, Houston-area public schools for private schools, homeschools, or non-district charter schools. Some of these students eventually return to the public school setting. To investigate this phenomenon of “returners,” Houston Education Research Consortium researchers followed two types of leavers in a cohort of Houston-area students to see if and when they return. First, the researchers followed students who left the Texas public school system (TPSS) entirely. Because these students left TPSS entirely, it was not clear where they went (i.e., private schools, schools in other states), and only one-third of these leavers returned and stayed in Texas public schools. Second, the researchers followed students who left traditional public schools for non-district charter schools. Since charter schools in Texas are public schools, the researchers were able to follow leavers, and found that nearly 60 percent of these leavers eventually returned to and stayed at a traditional public school. Understanding that certain types of mobility function as a “revolving door” between educational entities has implications for how schools inform, serve, and support their students and families.
dc.identifier.digital20210601-Exit_Only_or_Revolving_Doors_Student_Mobility
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/C8Z4-9Q22
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/117371
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research
dc.rightsCopyright ©2021 by Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research. All rights reserved.
dc.titleExit Only or Revolving Doors: Student Mobility to and from Non-Texas Public Schools and Non-District Charters
dc.typeReport
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