Moving Forward or Sliding Backward: The Evolution of Charter School Policies in Michigan and the District of Columbia

Autor/inn/en	Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie; Holyoke, Thomas T.
Titel	Moving Forward or Sliding Backward: The Evolution of Charter School Policies in Michigan and the District of Columbia
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 21 (2007) 1, S.185-214 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904806296903
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Public Education; Charter Schools; Educational Innovation; Federal Legislation; District of Columbia; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Öffentliche Erziehung; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bundesrecht
Abstract	What is the fate of charter school policy in the American states? The authors argue that dramatic new policies brought about by a radical reconfiguration of interests and politics are frequently short lived, though new policies are rarely erased; instead, they reach a compromise between competing sets of interests. The authors test this notion in a study of the evolution of charter school policy in Michigan and the District of Columbia. They find in Michigan that the original law, dramatic in the breadth of its change to public education, has slowly reverted to reflect a balance of power between the ideal positions preferred by pro-and anti-charter school interests. But in the District of Columbia, the innovativeness of the new law has largely been sustained, mainly because organized opposing interests largely failed to emerge. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table, and 4 endnotes.) (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10