Over the past few decades, Americans have witnessed a profound change in school choice. Public school choice has change and given many the ability to choose a magnet school, charter school, or an out of zone public school. For many the neighborhood, public school remains the norm for most children in society. The number of families who chose a school other in their neighborhood has increased by 45 percent between 1993 and 2007 (Kahlenberg, 2014). Nationally, more than a quarter of parents choose a school other than the public school their children are assigned to attend (Kahlenberg, 2014). Parents are choosing and making decisions daily for their choice of school in society. When parents choose it greatly increase their involvement in their child’s education.
It states that, parents whose children attended their choice of schools was 13 percent higher than among parents who kept their children in neighborhood schools. There were many parents participating in choice schools were over 12 percent more likely to engage in voluntary activities at their schools than were non-choosers (Rothstein,1999). Parents in choice schools engaged in more interactions with their neighbors about the schools over a period. Parents talked with twice as many parents in the last year as non-choosers
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There have been many questions about the appropriate size of American public schools. In the late nineteenth and most of the twentieth century witnessed a purposeful and aggressive consolidation movement, which increased the size of schools nationwide (Dee, Ha, & Jacob, 2006). Over several decades researchers have found that small schools are not more expensive than larger schools and that smaller schools have a better graduate rate (Hammond, Ross, & Milliken, 2006). There was an argument made in favor of larger schools would improve school quality by facilitating a more diverse and targeted curriculum (Dee, Ha, & Jacob,