Consequences of Governance Fragmentation (eBook)

Milwaukee's School Voucher Legacy

Michael R. Ford (Autor)

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2017
218 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4601-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book details the unintended financial and performance consequences of governance fragmentation resulting from Milwaukee’s private school voucher policy. It examines this policy through the lens of public administration, presenting a framework on how to reassert democratic accountability in complex public-private governance networks.

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The Consequences of Governance Fragmentation explains the ongoing legacy of Milwaukee's longstanding school voucher policy. The book details the evolution of school choice in Milwaukee, its impacts on student achievement, key externalities such as school closures and political conflict, and the ways in which the Milwaukee voucher program challenges traditional notions of accountability and democratic control. Michael R. Ford concludes that the voucher policy has fragmented public education to the point where true aggregate level progress of pupils is impossible and proposes an umbrella governance structure to bring funding and accountability equity to all publicly funded Milwaukee schools.

Autor

Michael R. Ford is assistant professor of Public Administration at the University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The Evolution of Milwaukee School Choice Policy: From Bold Experiment to Status QuoChapter 2: The Path to Fragmentation: How Voucher Policy Changed other Parts of Milwaukee’s Education LandscapeChapter 3: School Failure in the Milwaukee Parental Choice ProgramChapter 4: Milwaukee Voucher School Leaders’ Views on Accountability: What Are They, and Why do They Matter?Chapter 5: The Long-term Impact of Vouchers on MPS Finances and EnrollmentChapter 6: The MPCP and Student Achievement: What We Have Studied, and What We Need to StudyChapter 7: The Politics of School Vouchers in MilwaukeeChapter 8: A Parallel or Complementary School System?Chapter 9: Moving Milwaukee Forward: A Meta-Governance SolutionChapter 10: Lessons from the Milwaukee Voucher Experience

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 22 Illustrations including: - 13 Black & White Illustrations; - 9 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Education Policy • education reform • Meta-Governance • Milwaukee • Milwaukee Parental Choice Program • New Public Management • reinventing government • school choice • Vouchers • Wisconsin
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4601-3 / 1498546013
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4601-0 / 9781498546010