Salvaging NY's School "Contracts." Policy Briefing No. 4

Autor/in	Meyer, Peter
Institution	Empire Center for New York State Policy
Titel	Salvaging NY's School "Contracts." Policy Briefing No. 4
Quelle	(2008), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; State Aid; Outcomes of Education; Educational Change; Grants; Educational Objectives; Accountability; School Districts; State Departments of Education; Academic Achievement; Educational Indicators; Federal Programs; Elementary Secondary Education; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Bildungsreform; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Verantwortung; School district; Schulbezirk; Kultusministerium; Schulleistung; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator
Abstract	The centerpiece of former Governor Elliot Spitzer's education reform agenda was a set of performance agreements between the state and designated needy school districts. Known as Contracts for Excellence, or C4E, these agreements would eventually be linked to over a quarter of the new state aid proposed in the governor's first budget. C4E districts would not just get more money than other districts, they would be obligated to implement "proven" programs and, most importantly, be held accountable for the results. The program was supposed to ensure the efficient and effective use of limited resources to improve educational outcomes. This policy briefing argues that C4E has been seriously hobbled by flaws in its assumptions about the mechanisms of reform, by misguided beliefs about "what works" in achieving excellence, and by a compressed timeline for adoption and implementation. For better or worse--mostly worse--C4E could now more accurately stand for "Commitments for Expenditures." Spitzer's "contracts" have ended up looking more like a typical government grants program, draped with the jargon of reform. The former governor's original education reform speech continues to offer a touchstone of principles for making C4E the kind of program New York needs. This briefing shows how to accomplish it. (Contains 12 endnotes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Empire Center for New York State Policy. P.O. Box 7113, Albany NY 12224. Tel: 518-434-3100; Fax: 518-434-3130; e-mail: info@empirecenter.org; Web site: http://www.empirecenter.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10