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DiMartino, Catherine; Scott, Janelle – Educational Policy, 2013
Public officials are increasingly contracting with the private sector for a range of educational services. With much of the focus on private sector accountability on cost-effectiveness and student performance, less attention has been given to shifts in democratic accountability. Drawing on data from the state of New York, one of the most active…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Officials, Democracy, Educational Policy
Doyle, Daniela; Field, Tim – Public Impact, 2013
Charter school boards enter into a critical bargain: autonomy for accountability. Compared with their traditional district counterparts, they operate with relative freedom in curriculum, hiring, budgeting, and other operational decisions. In exchange, they are held accountable for student performance in ways that traditional district schools are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Closing, Charter Schools, Educational Quality
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Education Next, 2012
Washington is at a crossroads on K-12 education policy. Policymakers can (1) continue down the path of top-down accountability; (2) devolve power to states and districts, thereby returning to the status quo of the mid-1990s; or (3) rethink the fundamentals, do something different, and empower parental choice. This article discusses how the federal…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Governance, Government School Relationship
Mawhinney, Hanne B. – Educational Policy, 2013
An institutional analysis is presented of the policy, political, and legislative events associated with the failure of an attempt in 2006 by the state of Maryland to take control of 11 schools in Baltimore City and turn them over to independent managers or into charter schools under No Child Left Behind. The place of the failed…
Descriptors: Accountability, Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Improvement
Bohnstengel, Robert E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Charter schools are deregulated institutions that are provided considerable autonomy in order to spur innovation, yet little is known about their governance practices. The studies of charter school governance that do exist, however, typically concern cases of charter school failure. The causes of charter school failure are often clear and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Governance, School Administration, Institutional Autonomy
Johnson-Burel, Deirdre; Drame, Elizabeth; Frattura, Elise – Educational Action Research, 2014
In 2007, two years after Hurricane Katrina, several education and child advocacy groups began discussing the depleted conditions of the New Orleans public school district. These groups came together to discuss how to create a sustainable education reform movement post Katrina. New Orleans-based community groups and outside university researchers…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Public Education, Educational Quality, Educational Change
Kelleher, Maureen – Center for American Progress, 2014
Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City's education system embarked on a massive change effort, known as Children First, that produced significant results: new and better school options for families, more college-ready graduates, and renewed public confidence in New York City's schools. New York City's reform effort has also produced…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Educational Change, Institutional Autonomy
Bickmore, Dana L.; Dowell, Margaret-Mary Sulentic – NASSP Bulletin, 2015
This 3-year case study examined middle grades principal leadership in a takeover charter school. The researcher analyzed principal and teacher interviews, field notes, and documents in relationship to a middle grades model of principal leadership. Results suggest the principals' limited experience, organizational factors unique to takeover charter…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Charter Schools
Corbett, Julie – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2015
Persistently low-achieving public schools around the country have received $5.8 billion from the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, in addition to districts and state funds, and other supplementary federal funds. Despite all of these sources of funding, most of the schools receiving them have failed to make a dramatic difference in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School District Autonomy, School Turnaround
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2017
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's sponsorship annual report highlights our work with eleven schools that served 4,150 students in five Ohio cities during the 2016-17 school year. We value this opportunity to keep stakeholders and the public informed about our efforts, and provide information on each of the schools that we sponsor. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Donors, Private Financial Support, Accountability
Adamson, Linda – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative multiple case study concerned how school principals in charter, private, and public school settings experience autonomy, based on the schools' governance structures and accountability systems. Principal autonomy was defined as the authority that school principals exercise to lead staff effectively, to make decisions based on…
Descriptors: Principals, Professional Autonomy, Case Studies, Charter Schools
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2016
The 2015-16 school year was one of transition in Ohio. New state assessments (again), new charter sponsor evaluations, and even a new state superintendent. Change is hard, but it is important to remember that the developments of the last twelve months have their roots in policy decisions designed to improve Ohio's academic standards overall and…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Donors, Private Financial Support, Accountability
Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea, Ed.; Rutledge, Stacey A., Ed.; Jacobsen, Rebecca, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"The Infrastructure of Accountability" brings together leading and emerging scholars who set forth an ambitious conceptual framework for understanding the full impact of large-scale, performance-based accountability systems on education. Over the past 20 years, schools and school systems have been utterly reshaped by the demands of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data, Information Utilization, Educational Change
Galaviz, Brian; Palafox, Jesus; Meiners, Erica R.; Quinn, Therese – Berkeley Review of Education, 2011
This article offers a case study of the militarization of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). First, we portray the landscape of militarization of education through the example of Chicago Public Schools. Second, we situate the militarization of schools within the current charter school movement. Third, we explain the impact of militarization on…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Schools, Case Studies, Charter Schools
Russo, Alexander – Education Next, 2014
When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staff Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public-school system. This article discusses and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Resources, Educational Finance