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Report
8.26.2015
Governance

Schools of Thought: A Taxonomy of American Education Governance

Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., David Griffith

Questions of education governance are often considered moot by policymakers, who typically assume that the governance challenges plaguing their local schools are both universal and inevitable. Given the ubiquity of everything from local school boards to state superintendents, this seems to be a logical assumption.

Report
8.6.2015
School Finance, Governance

Who Should Be in Charge When School Districts Go into the Red?

Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., Victoria McDougald, Alyssa Schwenk

School districts across the land are contending with rising education costs and constrained revenues. Yet state policies for assisting school districts in financial trouble are uneven and complex. Interventions are often haphazard, occur arbitrarily, and routinely place politics over sound economics.