Document Type
Report
Publication Date
5-27-2010
Series Number
Volume 7 Issue 1
Keywords
Charter schools, demographics, Little Rock school district, public school, segregation
Abstract
In September of 2009, the Office for Education Policy (OEP) released a report titled “An Analysis of Charter Schools on Desegregation Efforts in Little Rock, Arkansas.” In this report, we presented data from the 2005 to 2009 schools years for students who transferred to open-enrollment charter schools in Pulaski County from the Little Rock School District (LRSD). The aim of this report was to show what impacts – if any – these transfers were having on the desegregation efforts of the LRSD. The motivation for this report was an ongoing legal debate about how charter schools impact desegregation, in which critics of charter schools argued that these schools lead to greater segregation, whereas charter proponents suggested that there was no necessary link between charters and segregation.
Citation
Jensen, N. C., & Ritter, G. W. (2010). Updated Analysis of Racial Segregation in Pulaski County Charter and Traditional Public Schools. Arkansas Education Reports. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/oepreport/41