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This case study uses interviews and focus groups with 36 parents across six school districts in Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan to examine bureaucratic hassles. Findings outline administrative burdens shaped by local policy design, highlighting uncertainty, waiting periods, and feelings of disempowerment. 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The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C180025 to The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education. This research was also supported by grant P2CHD042849, Population Research Center, awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.  \nThe Double Burden of School Choice  \nAbstract:  \nSchool 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.  \nThe Double Burden of School Choice  \nSchool choice policies, including charter schools, open enrollment, and school vouchers, seek to expand educational options for families, by allowing students to attend a school other than their ‘zoned’ or neighborhood public school. Choice policies often target children from racially minoritized groups and children living in poverty, who are more likely to attend underinvested schools (Scott & Holme, 2016), with the purported aim to empower families to access high-quality options not previously available to them (Scott, 2013) . Yet, researchers have found that school choice can also reproduce or widen inequalities in access to high-quality schools (Fong & Faude, 2018; Jennings, 2010; Lacireno-Pacquet et al., 2002; Lenhoff, 2020; Lubienski et al., 2009). Low-income Black and Latinx families are disproportionately more likely to navigate the school-choice landscape (Jabbar & Lenhoff, 2019; Scott, 2005), given the unequal access to high-quality educational opportunities. Rather than engage in the multilayered process of public-school choice, parents with more resources can often move into the attendance zone of their choice or retain that option as a backup if they do not gain admission to a desired school.  \nSchool choice policy sh","cbCaidvR6R3I6ME9","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidvR6R3I6ME9","pdf",546329,64,"English","# Abstract\n# School Choice Policies and Their Impacts\n## Access Inequality and Navigational Disparities\n## Parental Accountability and Administrative Burdens\n# Framing Administrative Burden in School Choice\n## Learning, Compliance, and Psychological Costs\n## Policy Design and Equity Effects\n# Psychological Costs in Education Decision-Making","[{\"question\":\"What question does the study address about school choice policy?\",\"answer\":\"The study examines how parents subjectively experience the administrative burdens of choosing schools, and how those burdens affect equity and access.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the research conducted in this case study?\",\"answer\":\"Researchers conducted interviews and focus groups with 36 parents attending traditional public, charter, and private schools across six districts in Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study identify as the “double burden” for certain families?\",\"answer\":\"It argues low-income Black and Latinx families face a double burden through learning, compliance, and psychological costs of choosing, as well as responsibility for their child’s educational success.\"}]","The Double Burden of School Choice - Technical Report | PDF",1792063005,161]