High Expense: Disability Severity and Charter School Attendance in Arizona

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  • Anthony M. Garcy Center for Health Equity Studies Stockholm University Karolinska Instituet

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v19n6.2011

Keywords:

school choice, charter schools, special education, severity (of disability), school finance, education policy.

Abstract

Much of the literature related to the skimming or cropping of students by charter schools has ignored special education students. This article examines the relationship between the severity of student disabilities and their likelihood of having attended an Arizona charter school in the 2002-2003 school year. After adjusting for student traits, local education agency characteristics, and the mix of available special education services, a multilevel logistic regression analysis suggests that students who had more severe and thus more expensive disabilities were less likely to attend an Arizona charter school. Findings from an ancillary set of hierarchical linear models suggested that special education students enrolled in charter schools were less expensive on average than similar traditional public-school special education students.

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Author Biography

Anthony M. Garcy, Center for Health Equity Studies Stockholm University Karolinska Instituet

Anthony M. Garcy is a sociologist.  He was recently (2005-2008) an American Education Research Association post-doctoral fellow at Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.  Currently, he is a researcher at the Center for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University/Karolinska Institute. His areas of research interest include the relationship between childhood health status and educational outcomes, charter school policy, and the sociology of work and occupations. 

 

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Published

2011-02-28

How to Cite

Garcy, A. M. (2011). High Expense: Disability Severity and Charter School Attendance in Arizona. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 19, 6. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v19n6.2011

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