ABSTRACT
This chapter expands the scope of the research to a new type of cost: organizational and social costs associated with admitting, enrolling, and educating a new population of students while continuing to support already-enrolled students. It focuses on interviews with the principals of 10 Catholic schools that chose to participate in the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program beginning in its first year to identify the major social costs schools face and examine how schools deploy their organizational resources to address these costs. The chapter highlights the non-regulatory organizational and social costs of voucher program participation, which in Indiana's heavily regulated voucher program are of greater concern to Catholic schools than are most regulations. It shows participating schools faced social costs and made organizational investments to help new students adjust to academic, social, behavioral, and religious norms of the Catholic schools and address challenges to the school community that came with participation.
