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Family And Community Engagement In Charter Schools, Brian Beabout, Lindsey Jakiel
Family And Community Engagement In Charter Schools, Brian Beabout, Lindsey Jakiel
Brian R. Beabout
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Portfolio Management Districts And Rebuilding Inequality, Brian R. Beabout
Portfolio Management Districts And Rebuilding Inequality, Brian R. Beabout
Brian R. Beabout
Despite over fifty years of near-constant educational reform movements in the USA, most attempts at improving outcomes in urban public schools have meet with predictable failure (Sarason, 1990). The recently coined term Portfolio Management Models (Bulkley, Henig & Levin, 2010) describes a reform to citywide governance in which the district serves as a coordinator of public education services, rather than the single provider of these services. Cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans are noted for having schools run by a variety of groups including national and local charter operators, magnets and neighborhood schools run by the …