Charter School Authorizations as Disputes: How School Board Members Justify Their Votes in a Neoliberal Context 1

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Diehl
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members

Charter school board members’ readiness to serve and implications for training

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marytza Gawlik ◽  
Ann Allen
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
School Board ◽  
Charter School ◽  
School Boards ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Usa

Purpose Analyzing data collected from the charter school board members and the superintendent in a charter school district in a southeastern state about the quality and usefulness of training, the purpose of this paper is to provide an important foundation for understanding training and development for charter school boards in the USA. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a qualitative case study approach to examine a charter school district and the preparedness of charter school board members to serve in that district. The authors sampled one charter school district in the southeast region of the USA and interviewed five charter school board members and the superintendent. Findings The first theme is composition and responsibility of charter school board members, which outlines the roles and responsibilities that charter school board members assume when they serve on this charter district board. The second theme is preparedness to serve, which traces the readiness of charter school board members to serve on a board. The final theme is training and documents related to the kind of training charter school board members receive once they are appointed to the board. Originality/value This study provides a conceptual framework about the dimensions and standards associated with preparedness to serve as a charter school board member and broadens the authors’ understanding of the roles and responsibilities of charter school boards, their preparedness to serve and the training and development they receive.

School board member definitions of accountability

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Ford ◽  
Douglas M. Ihrke
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Public Education ◽  
School Board ◽  
Charter School ◽  
High Stakes Testing ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Traditional Public School

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the differing ways in which nonprofit charter and traditional public school board members define the concept of accountability in the school or schools they oversee. The findings speak to the governing consequences of shifting oversight of public education from democratically elected bodies to unelected nonprofit governing boards. Design/methodology/approach The authors use originally collected survey data from democratically elected school board members and nonprofit charter school board members in Minnesota to test for differences in how these two populations view accountability. Open-ended survey questions are coded according to a previously used accountability typology. Findings The authors find that charter school board members are more likely than traditional public school board members to define accountability through high stakes testing as opposed to staff professionalization and bureaucratic systems. Originality/value The results speak to the link between board governance structure and accountability in the public education sector, providing new understanding on the way in which non-elected charter school board members view their accountability function.

Three Famous School Board Members

1931 ◽  
Vol 113 (20) ◽  
pp. 527-528
Author(s):  
Albert E. Winship
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members

Famous School Board Members

1931 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
J. L. van Norman ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Albert E. Winship
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members

Three Famous School Board Members

1931 ◽  
Vol 113 (9) ◽  
pp. 246-246
Author(s):  
Albert E. Winship
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members

Famous School Board Members

1930 ◽  
Vol 112 (21) ◽  
pp. 521-521
Author(s):  
Albert E. Winship
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members

Leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 72-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua P. Starr
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
School Governance ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members ◽  
Local School

Changing how we select school board members and how we approve district budgets could address long-standing challenges of local school governance.

Famous School Board Members

1930 ◽  
Vol 112 (22) ◽  
pp. 545-545
Author(s):  
Albert E. Winship
Keyword(s):  
School Board ◽  
Board Members ◽  
School Board Members
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