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Civil Society Goes to School: Parent-Teacher Associations and the Equality of Educational Opportunity

Brittany Murray, Thurston Domina, Linda Renzulli, Rebecca Boylan
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2019, 5 (3) 41-63; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.03

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    Time Trend of PTA Membership and Organizational Presence

    Source: Authors’ calculations updating Theda Skocpol’s data on PTA membership to 2017 and including organizational activity from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, Core and Business Master files.

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    Bivariate Loess Plots of School Demographic Composition and PTA Presence

    Source: Authors’ calculations using the National Center for Charitable Statistics, Core and Business Master files, and the National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data.

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    Elementary School PTAs by Local Free Lunch Participation Rates, North Carolina Research Triangle, 2015

    Source: Author-generated map using the National Center for Charitable Statistics, Core and Business Master files, with administrative data and shapefiles provided by the National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data and School Attendance Boundary Survey.

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Civil Society Goes to School: Parent-Teacher Associations and the Equality of Educational Opportunity
Brittany Murray, Thurston Domina, Linda Renzulli, Rebecca Boylan
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Mar 2019, 5 (3) 41-63; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.03
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