The Political Challenge of Charter School Regulation

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 508-512

  Hess, Frederick M ^a  

^a AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 1642270457     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170408500708     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Sandra Vergari, ed., The Charter School Landscape: Politics, Policies, and Prospects (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002).
2. Joe Nathan, Charter Schools (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996).
3. In various states, chartering bodies include state boards of education, state charter school boards, local school districts, universities, and municipalities. However, because most chartering bodies are public boards, our discussion will focus on these.
4. Charter Schools Today: Changing the Face of American Education (Washington, D.C.: Center for Education Reform, 2000), p. 95.
5. Charter School Closures: The Opportunity for Accountability (Washington, D.C.: Center for Education Reform, 2002). Reasons for closure could not yet be determined for 40 of the closed schools, suggesting that a few additional schools might also have been closed for reasons related to academic performance.
6. Stephen Macedo, Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000).
7. An important point needs to be made here. "Community" does not refer to the local community. Rather, we are referring to the larger political community - generally at the state level - that is responsible for shaping the relevant dimensions of education policy.
8. See Terry Moe, Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001), for extensive discussion of public attitudes on these issues.
9. Bruno Manno, "Yellow Flag," Education Next, Winter 2003, p. 21.