School closures in Chile: Access to quality alternatives in a school choice system

In this paper, we analyze the schooling alternatives of families that could face school closure. This article identifies, characterizes, and georeferences the institutions classified as low-performing by the SEP Law along with their closest alternatives. The findings indicate that a significant numb...

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Autores principales:	ELACQUA,GREGORY, MARTÍNEZ,MATÍAS, SANTOS,HUMBERTO, URBINA,DANIELA
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2012
Materias:	Accountability School choice Education policy School closure
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862012000200005
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description	In this paper, we analyze the schooling alternatives of families that could face school closure. This article identifies, characterizes, and georeferences the institutions classified as low-performing by the SEP Law along with their closest alternatives. The findings indicate that a significant number of families do not have any quality alternatives nearby, particularly families in rural areas and/ or in schools with a high percentage of low SES students. Additionally, when admissions barriers and family preferences are incorporated in the analysis, school alternatives are considerably reduced. Alternatives are further reduced when using a more stringent definition of school quality.
author	ELACQUA,GREGORY MARTÍNEZ,MATÍAS SANTOS,HUMBERTO URBINA,DANIELA
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title	School closures in Chile: Access to quality alternatives in a school choice system
title_short	School closures in Chile: Access to quality alternatives in a school choice system
title_full	School closures in Chile: Access to quality alternatives in a school choice system
title_fullStr	School closures in Chile: Access to quality alternatives in a school choice system
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School closures in Chile: Access to quality alternatives in a school choice system

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