Charter School Reform in California; Does It Meet Expectations?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-312

  Wells, Amy Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (38)

1. Chris Pipho, "Bipartisan Charter Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1993, pp. 102-3; and Amy Stuart Wells et al., "Underlying Policy Assumptions of Charter School Reform: The Multiple Meanings of a Movement," Teachers College Record, in press.
2. Chris Pipho, "Bipartisan Charter Schools," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1993, pp. 102-3; and Amy Stuart Wells et al., "Underlying Policy Assumptions of Charter School Reform: The Multiple Meanings of a Movement," Teachers College Record, in press.
3. Judith Powell et al., Evaluation of Charter School Effectiveness (Menlo Park, Calif.: SRI International, 1997).
4. Ibid., pp. II-1 -II-4.
5. Ibid., p. II-12.
6. RPP International, A Study of Charter Schools: First-Year Report (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1997).
7. Powell et al., p. II-14.
8. Ted Kolderie, "Chartering Diversity," Equity and Choice, vol. 9, 1992, pp. 28-31; Chester E. Finn, Jr., et al., Charter Schools in Action: Final Report (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1997); Bryan Hassel, Autonomy and Constraint in Charter Schools: The Case of Charter Schools (Cambridge, Mass.: Taubman Center for State and Local Government, 1996); and Marc Dean Millot, Autonomy, Accountability, and the Values of Public Education: A Comparative Assessment of Charter School Statutes Leading to Model Legislation (Seattle: University of Washington/RAND Corporation, 1996).
9. Ted Kolderie, "Chartering Diversity," Equity and Choice, vol. 9, 1992, pp. 28-31; Chester E. Finn, Jr., et al., Charter Schools in Action: Final Report (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1997); Bryan Hassel, Autonomy and Constraint in Charter Schools: The Case of Charter Schools (Cambridge, Mass.: Taubman Center for State and Local Government, 1996); and Marc Dean Millot, Autonomy, Accountability, and the Values of Public Education: A Comparative Assessment of Charter School Statutes Leading to Model Legislation (Seattle: University of Washington/RAND Corporation, 1996).
10. Ted Kolderie, "Chartering Diversity," Equity and Choice, vol. 9, 1992, pp. 28-31; Chester E. Finn, Jr., et al., Charter Schools in Action: Final Report (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1997); Bryan Hassel, Autonomy and Constraint in Charter Schools: The Case of Charter Schools (Cambridge, Mass.: Taubman Center for State and Local Government, 1996); and Marc Dean Millot, Autonomy, Accountability, and the Values of Public Education: A Comparative Assessment of Charter School Statutes Leading to Model Legislation (Seattle: University of Washington/RAND Corporation, 1996).
11. Ted Kolderie, "Chartering Diversity," Equity and Choice, vol. 9, 1992, pp. 28-31; Chester E. Finn, Jr., et al., Charter Schools in Action: Final Report (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1997); Bryan Hassel, Autonomy and Constraint in Charter Schools: The Case of Charter Schools (Cambridge, Mass.: Taubman Center for State and Local Government, 1996); and Marc Dean Millot, Autonomy, Accountability, and the Values of Public Education: A Comparative Assessment of Charter School Statutes Leading to Model Legislation (Seattle: University of Washington/RAND Corporation, 1996).
12. Powell et al., p. V-6.
13. Richard Rothstein, "Charter Conundrum," American Prospect, July/August 1998, pp. 46-60.
14. Bruno V. Manno, "Charter School Accountability," handout distributed at the Hechinger Institute Session on Charter Schools, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 1998.
15. Albert Shanker, "Restructuring Our Schools," Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 65, 1988, pp. 88-99; Kolderie, op. cit.; A. Reynaldo Contreras, "Charter School Movement in California and Elsewhere," Education and Urban Society, vol. 27, 1995, pp. 213-28; and Powell et al., op. cit.
16. Albert Shanker, "Restructuring Our Schools," Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 65, 1988, pp. 88-99; Kolderie, op. cit.; A. Reynaldo Contreras, "Charter School Movement in California and Elsewhere," Education and Urban Society, vol. 27, 1995, pp. 213-28; and Powell et al., op. cit.
17. Albert Shanker, "Restructuring Our Schools," Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 65, 1988, pp. 88-99; Kolderie, op. cit.; A. Reynaldo Contreras, "Charter School Movement in California and Elsewhere," Education and Urban Society, vol. 27, 1995, pp. 213-28; and Powell et al., op. cit.
18. Albert Shanker, "Restructuring Our Schools," Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 65, 1988, pp. 88-99; Kolderie, op. cit.; A. Reynaldo Contreras, "Charter School Movement in California and Elsewhere," Education and Urban Society, vol. 27, 1995, pp. 213-28; and Powell et al., op. cit.
19. Chester E. Finn, Jr., Bruno V. Manno, and Louann A. Bierlein, Charter Schools in Action: What Have We Learned? First-Year Report (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1996).
20. Julie Slayton, "School Funding in the Context of California Charter School Reform: Legislation Versus Implementation," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 1998.
21. Janelle Scott and Jennifer Jellison Holme, "Public Schools, Private Resources: The Role of Social Networks in California Charter School Reform," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 1998.
22. Ibid.
23. Paul T. Hill, "The Educational Consequences of Choice," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1996, pp. 671-75; Finn et al., op. cit.; and Joe Nathan and Jennifer Power, Policy Makers' Views on the Charter School Movement (Minneapolis: Center for School Change, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1996).
24. Paul T. Hill, "The Educational Consequences of Choice," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1996, pp. 671-75; Finn et al., op. cit.; and Joe Nathan and Jennifer Power, Policy Makers' Views on the Charter School Movement (Minneapolis: Center for School Change, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1996).
25. Paul T. Hill, "The Educational Consequences of Choice," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1996, pp. 671-75; Finn et al., op. cit.; and Joe Nathan and Jennifer Power, Policy Makers' Views on the Charter School Movement (Minneapolis: Center for School Change, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1996).
26. Alejandra Lopez, Amy Stuart Wells, and Jennifer Jellison Holme, "Bound(s) for Diversity: Structuring Charter School Communities." paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 1998.
27. Powell et al., p. II-10.
28. Lopez, Wells, and Jellison, op. cit.
29. Powell et al., op. cit.; and RPP International, op. cit.
30. Powell et al., op. cit.; and RPP International, op. cit.
31. John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe, Politics. Markets, and America's Schools (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1990); Hill, op. cit; and Nathan and Power, op. cit.
32. John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe, Politics. Markets, and America's Schools (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1990); Hill, op. cit; and Nathan and Power, op. cit.
33. John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe, Politics. Markets, and America's Schools (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1990); Hill, op. cit; and Nathan and Power, op. cit.
34. Contreras, op. cit.; Little Hoover Commission, The Charter Movement: Education Reform School by School (Sacramento: Report for the State of California Governor and Legislature, 1996); and Bruno V. Manno et al., "How Charter Schools Are Different: Lessons and Implications from a National Study," Phi Delta Kappan, March 1998, pp. 488-98.
35. Contreras, op. cit.; Little Hoover Commission, The Charter Movement: Education Reform School by School (Sacramento: Report for the State of California Governor and Legislature, 1996); and Bruno V. Manno et al., "How Charter Schools Are Different: Lessons and Implications from a National Study," Phi Delta Kappan, March 1998, pp. 488-98.
36. Contreras, op. cit.; Little Hoover Commission, The Charter Movement: Education Reform School by School (Sacramento: Report for the State of California Governor and Legislature, 1996); and Bruno V. Manno et al., "How Charter Schools Are Different: Lessons and Implications from a National Study," Phi Delta Kappan, March 1998, pp. 488-98.
37. Sibyll Carnochan, "Reinventing Government: Looking at School Districts Through the Charter School Lens," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 1998.
38. Eric Rofes, How Are School Districts Responding to Charter Laws and Charter Schools? (Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California, 1998).