Dynamic Participation in Interdistrict Open Enrollment
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2014-03-18Author
Lesley Lavery
Deven Carlson
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Abstract
Interdistrict open enrollment is the nation’s largest and most widespread school choice program, but our knowledge of these programs is limited. Drawing on 5 years of student-level data from the universe of public school attendees in Colorado, we perform a three-stage analysis to examine the dynamics of student participation in the state’s interdistrict open enrollment program. First, we explore the characteristics of students who open enroll in a defined baseline year. Second, we analyze the characteristics of students who continue to participate in the program in subsequent years. Finally, we examine the characteristics of students who—conditional on not open enrolling in the defined-baseline year—choose to participate in the program in one or more subsequent years.
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Lavery, L., & Carlson, D. (2014). Dynamic Participation in Interdistrict Open Enrollment. Educational Policy. doi: 10.1177/0895904813518103