Community Support for Mayoral Control of Urban School Districts: A Critical Reexamination

Autor/in	Shen, Francis X.
Titel	Community Support for Mayoral Control of Urban School Districts: A Critical Reexamination
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 44 (2012) 3, S.342-367 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/0013124510392916
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; Community Support; Urban Education; Public Officials; School Districts; Criticism; Accountability; Educational Policy; Hypothesis Testing; Futures (of Society); Educational Trends; Political Influences; Educational Administration; Race; Voting; Statistical Analysis; Massachusetts; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; School district; Schulbezirk; Kritik; Verantwortung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Future; Society; Zukunft; Bildungsentwicklung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Rasse; Abstammung; Abstimmung; Statistische Analyse; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	This article challenges the view that citywide referenda alone are an effective means of ensuring accountability for mayoral control. Through new empirical analysis of the referenda results in Boston and Cleveland, the article shows that rather than establish genuine democratic legitimacy, the referenda in fact mask strong class-based, and in Boston race-based opposition to the reform strategy. The article proceeds as follows. The Literature Review section presents a review of the relevant literatures on mayoral control and issues of urban political representation. The Data and Analytic Framework section discusses the specific hypotheses to be tested, and the data and methodology utilized. The Results section presents the results of the analysis. The Discussion section synthesizes these findings and discusses their implications for the future of urban education policy under the Obama administration. (Contains 3 tables, 2 figures and 19 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10