The politics of parent choice in public education
Subtitle: the choice movement in North Carolina and the United States
By: Wayne D. Lewis
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781137312075
Subjects: School choice; Public schools; Education and state; EDUCATION / Parent Participation; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Description: "This is the story of North Carolina parent choice advocates' push for the creation and expansion of choice policies in the state. The exploration of the politics, ideology, and interests surrounding parent choice in this conversation includes but also stretches beyond the most frequently discussed choice policies of charter schools, school vouchers, and tuition tax credits. Here, Lewis makes the argument that parents push for these policies are closely akin to parents' rejection of busing and redistricting policies in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Raleigh-Durham, parents' advocating for the state-support of home-schooling options across the state, and parents' pushing for the expansion of magnet and intradistrict choice options. He shows how central to parents' advocacy for all of these policies lies a more foundational desire to reconceputalize public schooling, with parents having much more individual control over how public funding is used for the education of their children"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Rethinking Public Education; title: 2. What is Choice?; title: 3. The Politics of Charter Schools; title: 4. The Politics of Charter Schools and Choice in North Carolina; title: 5. Busing, Desegregation, and Parent Choice; title: 6. Conclusion.