Reorganizing a Countywide School District: A Critical Analysis of Politics and Policy Development toward Decentralization

Autor/inn/en	Diem, Sarah; Sampson, Carrie; Browning, Laura Gavornik
Titel	Reorganizing a Countywide School District: A Critical Analysis of Politics and Policy Development toward Decentralization
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 26 (2018) 1, (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-2341
Schlagwörter	County School Districts; Administrative Organization; School District Reorganization; Politics of Education; Educational Change; Case Studies; Equal Education; State Policy; Policy Formation; Agenda Setting; Power Structure; Legislators; State Legislation; Policy Analysis; Qualitative Research; Educational Legislation; Elementary Secondary Education; Nevada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Politische Betätigung; Landesrecht; Politikfeldanalyse; Qualitative Forschung; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz
Abstract	Policymakers and educational leaders continue to use school district decentralization as a reform effort that attempts to shift power and authority from central office administration to school-level leadership. In 2015, the Nevada Legislature passed legislation to restructure the Clark County School District (CCSD), the state's largest school district, with the intent of breaking it up into smaller districts but instead evolving to decentralization. In this article, we use case study methods to explore the events leading up to the reorganization of CCSD. We take a critical perspective on Kingdon's multiple streams framework to analyze the reorganization efforts, focusing specifically on how Nevada's political context provided a window of opportunity for the reorganization to occur. We also examine the extent to which equitable educational opportunity was a factor in these efforts. Our analysis of the reorganization of CCSD contributes to a wider understanding of state-level policy development and politics within contemporary educational contexts. In this case, we find that state-level policymakers successfully leveraged the opportunity to enact the power and authority necessary to significantly and rapidly impact the structure of one of the largest school districts in the United States. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01