Do charter schools skim students or drain resources?

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 259-271

  Dee, Thomas S ^a   Fu, Helen ^b  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Resource allocation; School choice

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STUDENT;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842662447     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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