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Open Enrollment and Disrupting the Political Ecology of U.S. Public Education
- Source :
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Peabody Journal of Education . 2022 97(1):62-73. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Despite receiving little academic attention, open enrollment has the greatest potential among school choice policies to transform the governance of local school districts because all student transfers occur within the public school system, meaning that families and governance structures in two (or more) school districts are impacted by open-enrollment decisions. In this conceptual disconnection we demonstrate how open enrollment complicates the traditional educational ecosystem dramatically by altering existing relationships and introducing new actors and relationships into how school districts establish and implement policies. We then complicate the traditional analysis of open enrollment through the lens of Critical Policy Analysis, alongside an example from an Arizona school district, to illustrate the ways that racism and other forms of oppression are often overlooked, yet salient in (mis)shaping democratic governance in a political ecology disrupted by open enrollment.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0161-956X
- Volume :
- 97
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Peabody Journal of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1332570
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Evaluative
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2022.2026721