Evidence Required: A Critical Review of 'Improving Oversight of Michigan Charter Schools and Their Authorizers'. Policy Brief No. S2020-03

Autor/inn/en	Van Beek, Michael; DeGrow, Ben
Institution	Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Titel	Evidence Required: A Critical Review of 'Improving Oversight of Michigan Charter Schools and Their Authorizers'. Policy Brief No. S2020-03
Quelle	(2020), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-942502-48-7
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Charter Schools; Educational Administration; Educational Policy; Generalization; Accountability; Governance; Bias; Public Schools; State Legislation; School Law; Misconceptions; State Boards of Education; Error Patterns; Michigan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Verantwortung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Landesrecht; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Missverständnis; Fehlertyp
Abstract	This paper offers a critical review of a report published in March by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan titled "Improving Oversight of Michigan Charter Schools and Their Authorizers." The report argues that charter schools and charter school authorizers need more oversight. Making the case for this position might include demonstrating that charter schools are performing poorly and showing how additional oversight would bring needed improvements. Surprisingly, the report does neither of those things, and instead rests on broad generalizations about charter school accountability that rely on questionable assumptions that are not explained or justified. The report suffers from other issues. There are several factual errors or misrepresentations of facts. It supports several seemingly contradictory positions. It is biased towards a particular governance model for public schools -- local school boards -- but never provides a rationale for that bias. This review explains each of these shortcomings in detail. While some of these issues only tangentially relate to the main argument of the paper, on the whole, it fails to sufficiently demonstrate that charter schools need more public oversight. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01