Controlling Public Education: Localism versus Equity. Studies in Government and Public Policy.

Autor/in	McDermott, Kathryn A.
Titel	Controlling Public Education: Localism versus Equity. Studies in Government and Public Policy.
Quelle	(1999), (205 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-7006-0972-5
Schlagwörter	Citizen Participation; Consolidated Schools; Decentralization; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Governance; Parent Participation; Public Education; Public Schools; School Desegregation; School District Autonomy; Connecticut + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Consolidated school; Mittelpunktschule; Zentralschule; Decentralisation; Dezentralisierung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Elternmitwirkung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Integrative Schule; School district; School districts; Autonomy; School autonomy; Schulautonomie
Abstract	The school choice movement, the "Sheff v O'Neill" desegregation suit, Connecticut's integration and equal opportunity planning, and Jonathan Kozol's "Savage Inequalities" raise questions about the meaning of equality in the context of public education and its possible conflict with liberty and choice. The work analyzes participation in school governance in the city of New Haven and in three high-, middle-, and low-income suburbs to investigate typical high and low parent involvement. Citizen involvement need not always reinforce inequality, but existing local-control institutions structure participation to produce inequity, partly because standards of deference to expertise and school boards' desire to agree in public greatly constrain the governance role of ordinary citizens. Urban schools have become the alternative of last resort for people without options. This is a constraint on freedom and is one of the effects of a public education system of local control that forces a needless choice between democracy and equality. A centralization of resource allocation with decentralization of school governance will enhance both educational equity and citizen participation, and would balance democracy with equality. (Contains chapter notes and an 18-page bibliography.) (DFR)
Anmerkungen	University Press of Kansas, 2501 W. 15th, Lawrence, KS 66049 ($17.95). Tel: 785-864-4154; Fax: 785-864-4586.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC