Two families of q-Schur algebras associated to Hecke algebras of type D are introduced, and related to a family used by Geck, Gruber and Hiss [10], [11]. We prove that the algebras in one family, called the q-Schur algebras, are integrally free, stable under base change, and are standardly stratified if the base field has odd characteristic. In the so-called linear prime case of [10],[11], all ...