School closings, new school openings, CHA demolitions, and NCLB transfers each affected fewer than 1 percent of CPS students per year, though receiving schools saw summer in-mobility rise by almost 13 percentage points¶
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q2 i? Policy-driven mobility had a negligible system-level effect, but schools near new or closing schools experienced concentrated impacts, including a nearly 13 percentage point rise in summer in-mobility in receiving schools. → Marisa de la Torre 2009
Evidence¶
Marisa de la Torre 2009¶
Marisa de la Torre, Julia Gwynne. (2009). Changing Schools: A Look at Student Mobility Trends in Chicago Public Schools Since 1995. Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/changing-schools-look-student-mobility-trends-chicago-public-schools-1995
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Analysis of policy initiative effects in Chapter 4 of the executive summary and report. The report states "fewer than 1 percent" of students made voluntary moves into new schools or forced moves from closed schools; 25 receiving schools got 50 or more new students from closings.
"Fewer than 1 percent of students in any given year between 1995 and 2007 made voluntary moves into new schools, and fewer than 1 percent of students made forced moves out of schools that closed."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Elementary student mobility in CPS is predominantly a within-district phenomenon, with CPS-to-CPS transfers accounting for 50-60 percent of school-year transfers and two-thirds of summer transfers — related
- Elementary student mobility in CPS decreased between 1995 and 2007, with school-year stability rising from 87.9 to 91.2 percent and school-year in-mobility falling from 11.4 to 7.1 percent — related
- Displaced students changed schools a second time at roughly twice the rate of comparison students during the first year and the following summer — related
- Residential mobility explains 55-61 percent of the school-year race gap in mobility, school average achievement an additional 16 percent, and access to school choice options increasingly explains the summer gap — related
- Under NCLB, CPS transfer demand far exceeded available seats, and school classifications were unstable — related
- School mobility, especially frequent within-year moves, slows instructional pacing in schools with many mobile students — related
- School mobility during elementary school did not appear to be a pervasive risk for children's functioning, though very high mobility rates could not be studied — related
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School closings, new school openings, CHA demolitions, and NCLB transfers each affected fewer than 1 percent of CPS students per year, though receiving schools saw summer in-mobility rise by almost 13 percentage points |
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School closings, new school openings, CHA demolitions, and NCLB transfers each affected fewer than 1 percent of CPS students per year, though receiving schools saw summer in-mobility rise by almost 13 percentage points |
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2009 |
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2012 |
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