School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

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155 Index academic achievement and: charter schools, 73–74; school choice, 8; voucher programs, 22–23 Advanced Placement, 64–65 agency, common, 11, 60, 71 Building Civic Capacity (Stone et al.), 6–7 bureaucratic responsiveness: charter schools and, 2, 74–76, 80–85; common agency and, 11, 60–63; market forces and, 2–4; school choice and, 2, 3–4, 10, 15, 74–75, 102, 116 Campbell, Andrea Louise, 14, 109 Carnoy, Martin, 136–37n8 charter schools: compared to voucher programs, 18, 86–87, 105–6; de‹ned, 1–2, 16–17, 73; funding of, 2, 67; in Minnesota, 76; in New Jersey, 1–2, 55–57; observational studies of principals in, 52–54; parental satisfaction with, 73–74; social capital formation and, 75; statistical analyses of, in Minnesota, 121–27; unfair competition and, 2, 67–68 charter schools, effects on: academic achievement, 73–74; bureaucratic responsiveness, 2, 74–76, 80–85; parental participation, 84–85; principals ’ views of parents, 76–80; school budget approval, 97–100; skimming of active parents and, 66–67; voter turnout, 94–97 Chubb, John E.: advocacy of parental choice, 3–4; Chubb and Moe scholarship plan, 112; on failures of public education, 7, 9; ‹ndings of, critiqued , 4, 18–19, 112; ‹ndings of, supported, 80, 86, 102, 107–8 civic capacity, 6–7, 109 civic mobilization, 6–7 Cleveland, OH, 8, 21–22 client connection, 9–10 Columbia University Teachers College , 57 cross-class coalitions: in education, 109, 116; fully funded choice and, 114, 115; parent-teacher organizations and, 13–14; social security and, 13–14, 109 customers: active subset of, 5, 23–24; exit of, 5–6 Dahl, Robert, 4–5, 18, 145n14 Danielson, Michael N., 145n6 democracy: bureaucratic consequences of, 3, 110–11; effects of markets on, 4–5, 18–19, 111 Democracy and Education (Dewey), 101 Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 101 Dewey, John, 101 Diminished Democracy (Skocpol), 13–14 educational choice. See school choice education reform. See school choice; charter schools; voucher programs equality. See liberty and equality elections. See school budget referenda exit and voice, 5–6, 12, 21, 23, 26, 37 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Hirschman), 5–6, 21 Fenno, Richard F., Jr., 49, 51–54 “‹scal nationalism,” 116 Florio, Governor Jim, 55 Friedman, Milton, 3, 21 fully funded choice: described, 111–13; issues with, in implementation, 113–15 GI Bill, 13, 111 Godwin, R. Kenneth, 133n10 Henig, Jeffrey, 4 Hirschman, Albert, 5–6, 21, 23, 26, 66, 86, 102. See also exit and voice historical institutionalism, 13 Hochschild, Jennifer L., 145nn6, 14 inequality. See resource inequalities Jersey City, NJ, 55 Kemerer, Frank R., 133n10 Key, V. O., Jr., 89 Krueger, Alan, 22–23 liberty and equality: in fully funded choice, 113; pursuit of, in education, 2–3, 4–5, 107–8, 113; pursuit of, in public policy, 109–11; tension between, 4–5, 18, 101–2, 145–46n18 Lindblom, Charles, 109, 145n14 magnet schools, 21 market forces: bene‹ts of, 3, 9, 116; bureaucratic responsiveness and, 2; democratic costs of, 18–19, 116; interaction with politics, 4, 7, 14, 15, 18–19, 108, 109; introduction of, in education, 2 Marschall, Melissa, 137n14, 138n17, 143n25 McDermott, Kathryn A., 145–46n18 Mettler, Suzanne, 136n43 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. See Milwaukee voucher program Milwaukee voucher program: participation of parents and, 27–30; provisions of, 16, 26; sample attrition in, 31, 117–18, 139n30; skimming of active parents and, 26–30, 46; social capital formation and, 32–37, 46–47; statistical analysis of, 117–19; surveys of parents in, 26–27, 30, 138n24 Minnesota: charter schools in, 73–88; public school choice in, 141n4; survey of principals in, 17, 76 Minnesota Schools Survey, 76, 85, 88; statistical analysis of, 121–27 Moe, Terry M.: advocacy of parental choice, 3–4; Chubb and Moe scholarship plan, 112; on failures of public education, 7, 9; ‹ndings of, critiqued , 18–19; ‹ndings of, supported, 80, 86, 102, 107–8 money, in education, 108 National Household Education Survey , 38: statistical analysis of, 119–20 New Jersey: Charter School Program Act, 55–56; charter schools in, 1–2, 55–57; district matching procedures of data from, 92–93, 129–30; observation of school principals in, 1–2, 52–54; public school choice in, 6, 56–57; public school governance in, 89; school budget referenda in, 17, 68–70, 89–91; State Board of Education , 60; State Supreme Court, 57 New Jersey Education Association, 55 New York (city), 6, 22, 138n17 No Child Left Behind Act, 63 Ohio...