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Direct linkHolme, Jennifer Jellison; Diem, Sarah – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
This article examines the first regional governance reform in public education, created in the Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area in 2007. The legislation creating this regional reform, which is called the Learning Community, established a regional governing body, the Learning Community Coordinating Council, consisting of an elected 21-member…
Descriptors: Governance, Regional Programs, Case Studies, Educational Administration
Carl, Jim – Praeger, 2011
This book reveals that, far from being the result of a groundswell of support for parental choice in American education, the origins of school vouchers are seated in identity politics, religious schooling, and educational entrepreneurship. As the most radical form of "school choice," vouchers remain controversial in education today. The U.S.…
Descriptors: Parochial Schools, Community Schools, Freedom, Racial Segregation
Lindert, Peter H. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
This essay proposes a set of non-econometric tests using data on wage structure, school resource costs, public expenditures, taxes, and rates of return to explain anomalies in which richer political units deliver less education than poorer ones. Both the anomalies of education history, and its less surprising contrasts, fit broad patterns that can…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Tax Allocation, Mass Instruction
