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Direct linkCreed, Benjamin; Jabbar, Huriya; Scott, Michael R. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
One common expectation of school choice policies is that they will generate competition between schools. Despite the large body of work examining whether competition improves student outcomes, we know less about how competition works in the educational sector. We know even less about how charter school leaders perceive and respond to competitive…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Charter Schools, Competition, School Choice
Download full textSchlessman, Amy – Online Submission, 2014
This study presents Arizona's innovations in academic accountability policy and academic accountability frameworks for alternative schools. A timeline of statutes and regulations including the State Board of Education approved alternative school definition provides Arizona's context for alternative school accountability policy and frameworks.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Nontraditional Education, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
Hess, Frederick M.; Maranto, Robert; Milliman, Scott – 2000
Consideration of choice-based reform in educational governance rests heavily on the assumption that markets will improve school performance. Nonetheless, little empirical research has examined how educational organizations respond to competition. This paper hypothesizes that administrators are likely to respond by adopting governance…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Charter Schools, Decentralization, Educational Administration
Hess, Frederick M.; Maranto, Robert – 2000
This paper examines the genesis of Arizona's charter school law and discusses the key features of that law. Drawing on published sources and interviews conducted from November 1997 to March 2000 with 46 Arizona educators and policymakers, the paper details the conditions that prompted the broad push for charter schools. The text describes the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Cobb, Casey D.; Glass, Gene V.; Crockett, Carol – 2000
Among the major concerns surrounding school-choice programs is their potential to stratify students along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic class. The latest among four U.S. Department of Education national evaluations of charter schools reports no evidence that charter schools are predominantly white or that they segregate…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Christy, W. Keith; McNeal, Larry – 1999
During the 1980s and 1990s, state legislatures became significantly involved in developing policy that determined how and where students should be offered their K-12 education. These legislative acts have occurred most notably in the passage of revision of policy dealing with public school finance, charter schools, home schools, choice enrollment,…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation
