The politics of parent choice in public education : the choice movement in North Carolina and the United States /
This is the story of North Carolina parent choice advocates' push for the creation and expansion of choice policies in the state. The exploration of the politics, ideology and interests surrounding parent choice in this conversation includes but also stretches beyond the most frequently discuss...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Education Policy.
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| Summary: | This is the story of North Carolina parent choice advocates' push for the creation and expansion of choice policies in the state. The exploration of the politics, ideology and interests surrounding parent choice in this conversation includes but also stretches beyond the most frequently discussed choice policies of charter schools, school vouchers and tuition tax credits. Here, Lewis makes the argument that parents push for these policies are closely akin to parents' rejection of busing and redistricting policies in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Raleigh-Durham, parents' advocating for the state-support of home-schooling options across the state, and parents' pushing for the expansion of magnet and intradistrict choice options. He shows how central to parents' advocacy for all of these policies lies a more foundational desire to reconceputalize public schooling, with parents having much more individual control over how public funding is used for the education of their children. |
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| Physical Description: | 168 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137312075 (hardback) 1137312076 (hardback) |