GOVT 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Educational Equity, Capacity Building, Rulemaking
8 Sep 2016
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Administrative procedure act (1946) setup procedures to deal with the shrotcomings of delegation. Important components: right to seek judicial review, rules to develop regulations (informal rulemaking) Things such as: risk assessments, peer review, cost-benefit analysis, role of omb. Objectives: understand the changing popular orientations toward education policy and their implications, appreciate the tension that exists between educational quality relative to the educational equity and opportunity, distinction between higher education and k-12 education. Equal opportunity: civil rights, war on poverty. Accountability: question: how do you ensure this, central policy-making and administrative unit. Allocate resources to district schools: classified as a special service district, subject to dillon"s rule, financial arrangements. Help finance the cost of education: elementary, secondary. Autonomous educational institutions within the public school system that operate through contracts: voucher programs. Provide tax-payer supported financial assistance to low-income parents who wish to send their children to private schools: privatization. The practice of turning school administration over to for-profit, private enterprises.
