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An Institutional Theory Analysis of Charter Schools: Addressing Institutional Challenges to Scale
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Huerta, Luis A.; Zuckerman, Andrew – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
This article presents a conceptual framework derived from institutional theory in sociology that offers two competing policy contexts in which charter schools operate--a bureaucratic frame versus a decentralized frame. An analysis of evolving charter school types based on three underlying theories of action is considered. As charter school leaders…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Restructuring, Organizational Change, Centralization