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Title: The Double Burden of School Choice
Language: English
Authors: Huriya Jabbar (ORCID 0000-0002-5496-4863), Hanora Tracy, Emily Germain (ORCID 0000-0002-3372-0712), Sarah Winchell Lenhoff (ORCID 0000-0003-1025-8219), Jacob Alonso (ORCID 0000-0003-1918-1238), Shira Haderlein
Source: AERA Open. 2025 11(1).
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 25
Publication Date: 2025
Sponsoring Agency: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH)
Contract Number: R305C180025
P2CHD042849
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools, Educational Policy, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Parents, Experience, Anxiety, Elementary Secondary Education
Geographic Terms: Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan
ISSN: 2332-8584
Abstract: School choice policy shifts the responsibility of accessing high-quality schools from the state to parents, yet there is little research on how parents subjectively experience the burdens of choosing schools. In this case study, we conducted interviews and focus groups with 36 parents attending traditional public, charter, and private schools across six school districts in Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan to examine bureaucratic hassles in choice policy. We outline the administrative burdens of choice policies and how local policy design influenced the costs parents experienced. Despite policy efforts to improve equity and access in school choice, families dealt with uncertainty and waiting periods and ultimately felt disempowered by the process. School choice, we argue, placed a double burden on low-income Black and Latinx families through the learning, compliance, and psychological costs of choosing as well as the burden of responsibility for their child's educational success.
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