Decentralization of Education: Demand-Side Financing

L'auteur presente une vue generale des arguments avances en faveur d'une augmentation des activites de marche en education et etablit un bilan general des cas ou une approche de marche a ete implantee en education. Ces theories souvent rejetees par les pedagogues et educateurs, peuvent aider a ameliorer l'efficacite du systeme educatif, quand ces forces de marche sont utilisees de facon adequate dans ce contexte et ne vont pas a l'encontre des objectifs et precepts sociaux de l'education.

Market Forces in Education

School choice is advocated on the theory that deregulation and greater market control can restructure and improve education. While certain market strategies of improvement are worth exploring, complex production functions, unclear goals, and the political rcle of education in society limit the extent to which education _an be understood and improved as P. market. This document clarifies the public choice critique of education, describes the conditions of choice in a large urban magnet-based voluntary desegregation program, and analyzes central assumptions and propositions of public choice theory about family preferences and the organizational effects of choice. Data from the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Schools (MPS) magnet/voluntary desegregation program were collected and analyzed. The following major topics are discussed: (1) the political and economic arguments supporting choice in public education; (2) differences and similarities between the MPS system and traditional systems, emphasizing limitations on mandatory assignment policies; (3) choices ana attendance patterns of inner city black families and the correlates of magnet participation; (4) the effects of choice on teacher attitudes and organizational outcomes as measured by a teacher survey; and (5) potential system-level consequences of choice in MPS for achieving goals of educational equity and efficiency. Statistical data are included on 20 tables and 10 graphs. The following materials are appended: (1) a 255-item bibliography; (2) the results of a teacher survey of elementary and mtddle magnet and nonmagnet schools; (3) the differences in resource inputs between magnet and nonmagnet schools; and (4) a scatterplot of student composition variables for elementary magnet and nonmagnet schools. (FMW) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. MAGNET SCHOOLS, VOLUNTARY DESEGREGATION, AND PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY: LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES IN A BIG CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM BES1 COPY AVAILABLE by

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Magnet Schools, Voluntary Desegregation, and Public Choice Theory: Limits and Possibilities in a Big City School System.

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Re)Assessing the Impact of School Capitation Grants on Educational Access in Ghana

(1997). National Forces, Globalization and Educational Restructuring: some European response patterns. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 19-41.

National Forces, Globalization and Educational Restructuring: Some European Response Patterns.

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Denis P. Doyle

Papers

Family Choice in Education: The Case of Denmark, Holland, and Australia.