Educational Reform: Who Benefits

This article uses the Blau and Scott concept of cui bono to describe who has benefitted from the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) enacted in April, 1990. Rank and file participants are defined as the certified and classified staff; owners or managers of the organization become the administration, school district/board, and legislature; the clients become the students and the public-at-large becomes the general citizens of the state. The analysis reviews the curriculum, governance, and finance initiatives in the reform.