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Carl, James C.

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The politics of education in a new key: The 1988 Chicago School Reform Act and the 1990 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.

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Title/Author:	The politics of education in a new key: The 1988 Chicago School Reform Act and the 1990 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program./
Author:	Carl, James C.
Description:	476 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1268.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-04A.
Subject:	Education, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9526707

The politics of education in a new key: The 1988 Chicago School Reform Act and the 1990 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.
Carl, James C.

The politics of education in a new key: The 1988 Chicago School Reform Act and the 1990 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. - 476 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1268.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1995.

Since the 1960s, many observers have described urban education as in a state of crisis, due to budget shortfalls, deteriorating physical plants, low academic achievement, and high drop-out rates. Moreover, social policies of the 1960s and 1970s that were designed to ameliorate conditions in urban school systems--compensatory programs and desegregation--did not accomplish the opportunity and achievement goals expected. Disillusionment with these public policies helped alter the focus of urban school reform in the 1980s. The centralized and bureaucratic organizational structure of urban school systems became a target of reform.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Education, History of.

The politics of education in a new key: The 1988 Chicago School Reform Act and the 1990 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.
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520 $a Since the 1960s, many observers have described urban education as in a state of crisis, due to budget shortfalls, deteriorating physical plants, low academic achievement, and high drop-out rates. Moreover, social policies of the 1960s and 1970s that were designed to ameliorate conditions in urban school systems--compensatory programs and desegregation--did not accomplish the opportunity and achievement goals expected. Disillusionment with these public policies helped alter the focus of urban school reform in the 1980s. The centralized and bureaucratic organizational structure of urban school systems became a target of reform.
520 $a This dissertation investigates the origins of two pieces of legislation--the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act and the 1990 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. These reforms challenged the bureaucratic structure of urban school systems through "democratic" and "market" strategies, by creating Local School Councils and a small voucher system, respectively. The object of this comparative-historical study is to explain why the two reforms in nearby cities moved in such seemingly opposite directions. Through an investigation of economic, demographic, and political developments in the two cities and states, this study finds that differences in the political alignments of the reform coalitions best explain the different reform approaches.
520 $a There were many political interests at federal, state, and local levels that vied to shape both reforms. However, the dominant elements of the movement that produced Chicago school reform, especially in its early stages, represented a wide array of Chicago-based interests that included grass roots and city-wide civic organizations, business groups, the mayor's office, Democratic state lawmakers, and educational researchers located in public school advocacy organizations. By contrast, the movement that resulted in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program consisted, in large part, of a political alliance between state-level, neo-liberal reformers who sought to extend competitive markets to public education, and Milwaukee-based supporters of a handful of independent community schools located in the central city. School reform in Chicago was structured so that the reformers were, for the most part, supporters of public education--this led to sweeping governance reforms of the Chicago Public School system. The Milwaukee reform coalition operated in a political climate that was more conducive to privatization.
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