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Parents founding charter schools : dilemmas of empowerment and decentralization

Title: Parents founding charter schools : dilemmas of empowerment and decentralization / Patty Yancey.
Author: Yancey, Patty, 1949-
Publication: New York : P. Lang, ©2000.

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Description

x, 225 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Parents Founding Charter Schools investigates the founding, development, and early operations of two start-up, parent-run charter schools in neighboring urban areas in California. Both schools were among the first 105 charters approved in the state and provide an "up close and personal" view of the early years of charter organizing. The ethnographic case study method allows us to witness the impact of external and internal barriers to decentralization on the lives and relationships of charter parents, teachers, and administrators. Also rendered visible are the connections between internal chaos after the schools are operational and decisions or compromises made by sponsors and charter founders during the early developmental stages of the organizations."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Counterpoints ; v. 135

Uniform Title

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 135.

Subject

Genre/Form

Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-219) and index.

Contents

1 Charter Schools & Parents 9 -- 3 But We All Loved the Idea 59 -- 4 Searching for Diversity 119 -- 5 Decision Making, Vision, & Community Building 171.

ISBN

0820449083
9780820449081

LCCN

99055244

OCLC

ocm42690253
42690253
SCSB-8904970

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library