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Impact of Voucher Design on Public School Performance: Evidence from Florida and Milwaukee Voucher Programs. Staff Report No. 315
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Chakrabarti, Rajashri – Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2008
This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It argues that all voucher programs are not created equal. There are often fundamental differences in voucher designs that affect public school incentives differently and induce different responses from them. It analyzes two voucher…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Program Effectiveness, Educational Vouchers, School Effectiveness
A Special Report: Toward a New Generation of Schools: The Florida Schoolyear 2000 Initiative.
Salisbury, David F. – Educational Technology, 1992
Discussion of redesigning the current models of public education focuses on the Schoolyear 2000 Initiative in Florida, which is aimed at large-scale redesign of schooling. Design requirements for the new model are described, the role of technology is discussed, and the use of quality systems and total quality management (TQM) concepts is reviewed.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Designing Site-Based Systems, Deriving a Theory of Practice.
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Bauer, Scott C. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1998
Reviews five dimensions (focus, scope, structure, process, and capacity) of an organizational design used by 20 New York districts planning for site-based management (SBM) implementation. The confusion surrounding devolution of decision making hinders districts' efforts to effect changes in intermediate variables (job satisfaction and staff…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Job Satisfaction