{"id":4300,"date":"2013-04-05T19:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T23:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2016-03-28T18:07:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T22:07:02","slug":"the-relationship-between-charter-schools-and-catholic-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2013\/04\/the-relationship-between-charter-schools-and-catholic-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"The Relationship Between Charter Schools and Catholic Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research Question:<\/strong>\u00a0 How has the growth of charter schools negatively affected catholic schools over the past two decades? What does this growth look like on a national level as well as a local one, specifically in the city of Hartford?<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong>\u00a0 School choice has been a heavily studied topic throughout our semester and is constantly debated by education reformers at a national level. The rise of charter schools throughout the country continues to increase as families have become more dissatisfied with traditional public schooling and look for alternatives. Charter schools have been highly criticized by education reformers who don\u2019t believe that they are a long-term solution to ensuring all children have access to a public school education. One reformer who is particularly against the implementation of charter schools over traditional public schools is Diane Ravitch. The reason I\u2019ve decided to focus my research on the impact charter schools have had specifically on catholic schools is because of a comment she included in her book that was particularly interesting to me. Though she is against most programs within the school choice movement, she is not against catholic schools as an alternative for students who live in low-income communities.\u00a0 I think it will be particularly interesting to examine how, as charter schools continue to increase across the country, what this does to catholic schools. Often times, catholic schools are forced to shut down or are replaced by chartered schools because they have more government support and access to funding.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to examine this relationship in urban areas throughout the country, specifically in low-income communities, as well as providing one specific example of a catholic school in Hartford, St. Justin, which was replaced by Jumoke Academy, a charter school.<\/p>\n

Research strategy:\u00a0<\/strong> In order to fully understand the relationship between charter schools and catholic schools, I plan on doing a substantial amount of research on what the major differences are between these two types of schools, and how they vary in teaching approach, student population, and funding. The library database will be exceedingly helpful in this respect because of the various databases focused specifically on education. Education Full Text and JSTOR have already been really helpful, and I plan on continuing to use them as I get further into my research. EducationWeek.org will also be useful when I\u2019m discussing the impact of charters on catholic schools at a national level. My strategy for finding information on the transformation from St. Justin\u2019s to Jumoke Academy will be much different.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to search the Hartford Courant Historical, as well as Lexis Nexis Academic to find news stories specific to Hartford.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Booker, Kevin, Tim R. Sass, Gill, and Ron Zimmer. \u201cThe Effects of Charter High Schools on Educational Attainment.\u201d Journal of Labor Economics<\/em> 29, no. 2 (April 1, 2011): 377\u2013415. doi:10.1086\/658089.<\/p>\n

Brinig, Margaret F., and Nicole Stelle Garnett. \u201cCatholic Schools, Charter Schools, and Urban Neighborhoods.\u201d The University of Chicago Law Review<\/em> 79, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 31\u201357. doi:10.2307\/41552894.<\/p>\n

Cavanagh, Sean. \u201cCatholic Ed., K-12 Charters Squaring Off.\u201d Education Week<\/em> 32, no. 2 (August 29, 2012): 1\u201313.<\/p>\n

Donlevy, J. Kent. \u201cCatholic Schools: The Inclusion of Non-Catholic Students.\u201d Canadian Journal of Education \/ Revue Canadienne De L\u2019\u00e9ducation<\/em> 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 101\u2013118. doi:10.2307\/1602190.<\/p>\n

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