Private schools and school enrollment in Chicago

Chicago Fed Letter, Oct 2006 by Sander, William

7 Elaine Allensworth, 2005, Graduation and Dropout Trends in Chicago: A Look at Cohorts of Students from 1991 through 2004, University of Chicago, Consortium on Chicago School Research, report, January, available at www.consortium-chicago.org/publications/ pdfs/p75.pdf.

8 Jeffrey Sable and Lee M. Hoffman, 2005, Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and secondary School Districts in the United States: 2002-03, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, report, August, available at http:// nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005312.pdf.

9 Loyola University Chicago, Institute of Urban Life, 1990, Chicago's Private Elementary and secondary Schools, report; and Archdiocese of Chicago, Office of Catholic Schools, 2005, Annual Report, Chicago.

by William Sander, professor of economics, DePaul University, and consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago