Money, Mandates, and Local Control in American Public Education

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Index Q Q Q 193 Abbott v. Burke, 107, 111, 175n13 Academies Act. See Public School Academies Act Act 60, 5, 29, 49, 53, 55, 67, 69, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 84, 87, 88, 119, 130, 153, 161, 162, 171nn1–2, 171n6, 172nn13–14, 173n24, 175n7; centralization and consolidation, 74–76; centralization and electives, 76–77; centralization and municipal government, 73–74; centralization and public involvement , 68–73; and local control, 59–65, 66, 68, 74, 77, 128, 131, 173n20; nonfinancial components, 65–67; opponents , 51, 52; school finance reform, 51; taxes and spending, 56–59 Adams, Samuel, 156 African Americans, 78; academic achievement, 32, 34, 38, 41, 42, 44, 45, 169n2; Connecticut, 143; safety, 33. See also blacks Alabama: school finance reform, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98–101, 110, 115 Alaska, 145, 159 Amanda Brigham et al. v. State of Vermont, 48, 51, 171n1 American Association of School Administrators , 122 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 8 Andersen, Jack, 48, 51 Arkansas, 7, 123 Arlington, VA, 150 Article VI, 177n11 Article 7, 171n1 Article 9, 171n1 Article 68, 171n1 Auburn University, 100 Austin. See University of Texas at Austin Australia, 173n23 autonomy, 10, 13, 16, 32, 36, 54, 87, 89, 120, 124, 131, 152, 153, 158, 180, 186; decentralized-level, 22, 30; local, 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 46, 47, 49, 51, 52, 55, 59, 65, 67, 78, 80, 81, 88, 90, 92, 115, 116, 132, 156, 157, 161, 163, 167, 168, 175, 176; negative, 21, 29, 31, 32, 45, 46, 55, 87; positive, 22, 29, 81, 88, 89 Baicker, Katherine, 73 Bailer, Penny, 82, 85 Barbour, Haley, 12 Barker, Ruth Anne, 51, 66, 77, 128 Benoit, Rachel, 128 Berlin, Isaiah, 88, 168n4 Berman, David, 15, 21, 131 Birmingham News, 98, 100 Biscobing, David, 148 blacks: academic achievement, 37, 38, 41, 44, 45, 101, 143, 151. See also African Americans block grants, 49, 145 Board of Education. See Brown v. Board of Education; Detroit, MI: Board of Education Bowman, Ann O’M., 14 Brandeis, Louis, 6 Brandon, VT (PT1), 53, 56, 66, 71 Brown v. Board of Education, 1, 3, 4, 116 Brunswick, ME, 93 Bryan, Frank, 50, 168n9, 171n3 Bryce, James, 14, 15, 120 bureaucracy: centralization of, 21, 120; federal, 151; state, 32, 107 Burger, Warren, 3 Burke. See Abbott v. Burke Bush, George H. W., 123–24 Bush, George W., 11, 33, 93, 124, 129, 135; Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 133; NCLB, 146, 160, 170n9; 2000 election, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 170n9, 170n14 California, 7, 124, 136, 137, 149. See also Serrano v. Priest Camp, Greg, 68, 72, 76 Capstone Poll Omnibus Spring Survey, 100 Carnoy, Martin, 19 Carroll, Connie, 64, 129, 130 Casarez, Patricia, 149 Center for Governmental Studies, 112 Center on Education Policy (CEP), 137 centralized-level education, 19, 151 centralized-level finance, 7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 45, 68, 75, 86, 87, 119, 125, 131, 132, 153, 157, 173n25, 173n30; Act 60, 130; and negative local autonomy, 31–46; in Vermont and Michigan, 47–89 centralized-level funding, 10, 22, 23, 25, 27, 132, 151, 152, 168n5, 169n8; problems with, 119–31 centralized-level politicians, 161 centralized-level regulation, 22, 151, 152 CEP. See Center on Education Policy charter schools, 19, 83–84, 87, 116, 173n29 Clarke, John H., 65, 66 Clinton, Bill, 14, 123, 124 Colorado, 136, 137, 148 Columbine, 41, 170n17 Connecticut, 6, 136, 138, 144, 147, 148; African Americans, 143 control of public education, 2, 11, 23, 74, 116, 128 Courant, Paul N., 173n26 Danielson, Michael N., 14, 93 Davis, Gray, 124, 134 Dayton, Margaret, 148, 177n13 Dean, Howard, 49 decentralized-level actors, 141, 151 decentralized-level autonomy, 22, 30, 153, 168n5 decentralized-level compliance, 151, 152 decentralized-level officials, 27, 141, 142, 152 democracy, 13,14, 92–94, 115, 130, 165; accountability, 168n1; American, 13; direct, 15, 50, 127, 128; grassroots, 2; local control, 83, 93, 95, 96, 97, 100, 102, 105, 110, 111, 112, 116, 124, 128, 156; participatory, 72, 88, 124, 128, 164; small-scale, 13, 71, 88, 92–93, 115, 128, 163; theory, 88, 124, 163 Democratic Party, 33, 158, 176n7 democratic virtues, 13, 95, 96, 97, 100, 102, 105, 110, 111, 112, 115 Department of Education, 43, 126, 135; U.S., 34, 135, 168n7; Vermont, 66 Derthick, Martha, 168n3 Detroit, MI, 78, 80, 181...