Midwest Approaches to School Reform : Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, October 26-27 1994

by Downes, Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9780898755602
• ISBN10: 0898755603
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. i
Opening Remarks	p. 1
Issues and Experience in Finance Reform
A Report on School Finance and Educational Reform in Michigan	p. 5
School Finance Reform: The View from Wisconsin	p. 34
Discussions
The Illinois Perspective	p. 54
Issues in Indiana Public School Funding	p. 57
Issues in School Finance Reform Comments and Iowa Experience	p. 62
The South Carolina Experience with Incentives	p. 69
Discussion	p. 92
Experiments and Experience with Choice
Chartered Public Schools: A Brief History and Preliminary Lessons	p. 98
Public School Choice in Minneapolis	p. 110
Who Chooses? Voucher and Interdistrict Choice Programs in Milwaukee	p. 127
Discussion
School Choice and the Creaming Problem	p. 156
Directions in Management and Delivery in Urban School Systems
Redesigning Accountability at the Systemwide Level: The Politics of School Reform in Chicago	p. 162
Discussion	p. 188
An Analysis of the Effect of the Chicago School Reform on Student Performance	p. 193
Discussion	p. 222
Baltimore City Public Schools: Experimenting with Private Operation	p. 224
Discussion	p. 239
Participants	p. 242
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