Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics
ISBN-13:
9780815736844
ISBN-10:
0815736843
Author:
William G. Howell
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Brookings Institution Press
Format:
Hardcover
356 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780815736844
ISBN-10:
0815736843
Author:
William G. Howell
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Brookings Institution Press
Format:
Hardcover
356 pages
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Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics (ISBN-13: 9780815736844 and ISBN-10: 0815736843), written by authors
William G. Howell, was published by Brookings Institution Press in 2005.
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School boards are fighting for their survival. Almost everything that they do is subject to regulations handed down from city councils, state boards of education, legislatures, and courts. As recent mayoral and state takeovers in such cities as Baltimore, Chicago, and New York make abundantly clear, school boards that do not fulfill the expectations of other political players may be stripped of what few independent powers they still retain. Teachers unions exert growing influence over board decision-making processes. And with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government has aggressively inserted itself into matters of local education governance. B esieged is the first full-length volume in many years to systematically examine the politics that surround school boards. A group of highly renowned scholars, relying on both careful case studies and quantitative analyses, examine how school boards fare when they interact with their political superiors, teachers unions, and the public. For the most part, the picture that emerges is sobering: while school boards perform certain administrative functions quite well, the political pressures they face undermine their capacity to institute the wide-ranging school reforms that many voters and local leaders are currently demanding.
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