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Analysis Of Marka, Sample And Prose Presentation

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DATA, SAMPLE AND SITE SELECTION
The primary source of data for this study is the data gathered and published by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). This instrument is appropriate for investigating all California public schools because it is a holistic and comprehensive dataset that all schools are required to provide data for: “as of February 2014, OCR received OMB approval to require every public school and school district in the country to respond to both the 2013-14 CRDC” (U.S. Department of Education, 2016). The OCR documentation aims to get full participation from schools, and therefore missing data is negligible. The dataset includes a variety of information, including statistics on enrollment, educational programs, discipline, and …show more content…

Furthermore, according to the California Charter Schools Association (2017), there are 1115 charter schools in California. Thus, over 10 percent of all schools in the state are charter schools. Finally, since this study looks at an entire population of schools, it is generalizable to and broadly representative of California’s schools.
I limited the sample to exclude preschools, schools only offering kindergarten, alternative schools, juvenile justice schools, and virtual schools. I also excluded schools whose total enrollment was less than 30 students. These exclusions from the original dataset resulted in a total of 8,486 schools (953 charter and 7,533 traditional public).
RESEARCH DESIGN
This study examines disparities between charter and traditional public schools by comparing the student body composition and educational opportunities experienced by the average student in these schools. First, I identified charter schools from a list provided by the California Charter Schools Association that catalogs all of the charter schools in the state of California. This list was then merged with the Office of Civil Rights dataset by the school ID variable to distinguish between charter and traditional public schools in the OCR data. Traditional public schools include traditional public schools

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