Natalie Lacireno-Paquet

TL;DR: This paper found that market-oriented charters are more likely to focus on an elite clientele, but they are less likely than the other two types of schools to serve so-called marginalized students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a typology of charter schools that is grounded in the norms, traditions, and perspectives of the founding organization or organizers, and test the typology by examining charter school behaviors related to choosing a theme and targeting, deciding on the size and grade configuration, and marketing and market research behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate two distinct strands in the charter school movement: one that emphasizes school-based management and another that emphasizes market efficiency, and find that charter schools that were founded or co-founded by for-profit education management organizations tend to be larger and are less likely to exhibit decision-making control at the school level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-examine the dualist theory of public and private sector providers of public services and argue that a political response is as likely to be exhibited by for-profit providers who should be the most free-market oriented, as nonprofit organizations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present three different models of policy change: the old status quo, the new status quo returning to the old interests, and the new interests now reaping the benefits.