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- Title
Holding on to Local Control.
- Authors
Mitchell, Ken
- Abstract
Given the increasing presence of conflict and the corresponding stress and tension in the public school system around the country, there has never been a time when highly effective governance is more needed" (Campbell & Fullan, p.13). Efforts to wrest oversight of public education to control what is taught and by whom has been an ongoing theme in the history of American education. For over forty years, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a national policy network founded by the Heritage Foundation, has provided local policy actors with legislative templates for bills that reflect neo-liberal and conservative agendas, such as influencing school policies at state and local levels. According to the Education Data Initiative (2022) almost $800 billion dollars are spent on educating America's 50 million public school students every year.
- Subjects
HERITAGE Foundation (Washington, D.C.); AMERICAN Legislative Exchange Council; TEACHER development; EDUCATIONAL leadership; PARENTING education; EDUCATION policy; EDUCATIONAL vouchers; SCHOOL choice
- Publication
AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 3, p4
- ISSN
1550-9850
- Publication type
Article