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- Title
Accountability Battle: A Critical Analysis of a Charter Renewal Decision.
- Authors
Enoch-Stevens, Taylor; Daramola, Eupha Jeanne; Jabbar, Huriya; Marsh, Julie
- Abstract
Charter school policy represents two simultaneous forms of accountability, in which schools are accountable to both parents and authorizers. This study of a K-8 charter renewal decision interrogates these accountability relationships and the role of race and power in privileging the interests of particular stakeholders over others. Using counternarrative methodology and qualitative interviews and observations, we draw on critical race theory and new managerialism to make sense of the competing accounts surrounding a non-renewal process. We find four areas of tension, in which district officials subscribe to new managerialist authorizing styles that leave little room for participation from the Black and low-income school community. We conclude with recommendations for how districts can partner with communities to work toward frameworks of accountability that value the goals of multiple stakeholder groups.
- Subjects
CRITICAL race theory; CRITICAL analysis; POOR communities; CHARTERS; CHARTER schools; URBAN renewal
- Publication
Urban Education, 2024, Vol 59, Issue 6, p1808
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00420859221095005