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Direct linkMegin Charner-Laird; Stacy Agee Szczesiul – Educational Forum, 2025
The Massachusetts Innovation Schools initiative authorized educators to operate with increased autonomy and flexibility. This descriptive case study examines the early experiences of teachers in one innovation school. We explore the innovations teachers leveraged to build capacity, with particular attention to how they enacted teacher leadership…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Case Studies, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes
Johnson, David R. – Educational Policy, 2024
Legislative professionalism is central to the politico-institutional context of postsecondary policy adoption in state governments. The core argument in existing research is that as legislative professionalism increases, structural capacity for decision-making increases. Evidence for this argument is mixed, exclusively quantitative, and assumes a…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Stakeholders
Download full textBill Kottenstette; Paola Paga – Colorado Department of Education, 2024
The Innovation Schools Act of 2008, ยง 22-32.5-102, et seq. C.R.S., was designed to provide a pathway for schools and districts to develop and implement innovative practices in a wide variety of areas and contexts to improve student outcomes. The Act provides a formal process that allows schools or groups of schools to make requests to their local…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, School District Autonomy
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2024
This report documents two distinct stages of decision-making regarding new charter school proposals. The first is a "development" decision which includes the following: (1) further study of a new charter school; (2) considering participation in a charter consortium; or (3) study of a federal Charter Schools Program grant or subgrant for…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, State Surveys, State Legislation, Institutional Autonomy
Isaac Kamola – American Association of University Professors, 2024
During the 2021, 2022, and 2023 state legislative sessions more than one hundred and fifty bills were introduced seeking to actively undermine academic freedom and university autonomy. This includes nearly one hundred academic gag orders affecting higher education, such as those restricting the teaching of "critical race theory" (CRT)…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Higher Education, Social Systems, Organizations (Groups)
Rachel M. Perera; Susan Bush-Mecenas; Jonathan D. Schweig – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2024
Since the 1990s, charter schools have spread rapidly across the nation. The replication and expansion of charter schools has become a common feature of the portfolio management model which situates the district as strategic manager of a choice-based system including traditional and charter schools. Yet, many school districts have experienced…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, School Districts, Politics of Education
