From Alternative Schools to School Choice in the Vancouver School District, 1960s to the Neoliberal Present

Autor/inn/en	Ellis, Jason; Yoon, Ee-Seul
Titel	From Alternative Schools to School Choice in the Vancouver School District, 1960s to the Neoliberal Present
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, (2019) 188, S.86-103 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1207-7798
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Nontraditional Education; School Choice; School Districts; Educational History; Neoliberalism; Equal Education; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Secondary Education; Secondary Schools; Remedial Programs; Educational Legislation; Federal Legislation; Expenditure per Student; Student Recruitment; Competition; Social Change; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; School district; Schulbezirk; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sekundarbereich; Sekundarschule; Förderprogramm; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bundesrecht; Wettkampf; Sozialer Wandel; Kanada
Abstract	This article examines the transformation over time of alternative secondary school programs in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC). It approaches school choice from a historical standpoint, to make the point that today's choice policies are neither entirely recent nor entirely neoliberal in origin. Instead, they are built on past precedent and policy flowing from the right and left of the spectrum. The article traces the alternative schools that first emerged in the 1960s, and the Vancouver school board's subsequent absorption of them to offer new, alternative programs beyond its regular secondary school curriculum. Vancouver's alternative secondary programs were soon organized into two distinctive types: (1) remedial "rehabilitative" alternatives, and (2) selective "district specified" alternatives. New policy, institutional changes, and philosophical changes in the education sector allowed both types of alternatives to exist, but over time encouraged district specified alternatives to thrive. The provincial School Amendment Act of 2002 represented a watershed for choice as we know it today. It opened attendance boundaries across BC and gave districts the tools to generate their own revenues. Freezing the per-pupil funding it provided to districts at the same time, the provincial government induced districts to compete with one another to recruit students domestically and internationally in order to secure revenue. "District specified" programs in Vancouver became a key to the district's competitive ability. By elucidating some of this history of different alternative and choice programs, at the secondary level in Vancouver, this article adds considerable perspective to the current theoretical discussion about how neoliberal philosophy is changing choice in Canadian schools. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01