Balancing Act: Educational Management Organizations and Charter School Autonomy.

Autor/in	Bulkley, Katrina
Titel	Balancing Act: Educational Management Organizations and Charter School Autonomy.
Quelle	(2002), (38 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Decentralization; Educational Administration; Elementary Secondary Education; Institutional Autonomy; Interviews; Professional Autonomy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Decentralisation; Dezentralisierung; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Institutionelle Autonomie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Berufsfreiheit
Abstract	This study examined the ways in which for-profit comprehensive management educational management organizations (EMOs) operating charter schools respond to the need to balance school autonomy and flexibility with the fact that centralized operations require consistency, coordination, and legal constraints. The study focused on the perspective of EMO central office staff to explore the balance between central control and local autonomy. The study first examined research and EMOs and privatization and then considered the notion of school autonomy. Representatives of 15 EMOs were interviewed for this study, and autonomy was analyzed. Findings show that the ability of stakeholders in an individual charter school to make decisions about operations in that school varies greatly across a host of issues, including components of the educational program, governance, organization, hiring practices, and fiscal issues. From the perspective of EMO central office staff, specifics of school autonomy very considerably between companies, even among EMOs that call into the category of comprehensive management. Company staff view the removal of some autonomy as critical to developing quality charter schools and, often, to maintaining fidelity to EMO ideals. (Contains 37 references.) (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC