Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on New Approaches in Education
Year: 2024
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Collaboration Between a City Municipality and Its Local Education Agency: Two Governments – One Fate for Urban School Renewal
William C. Frick, Sara Doolittle, Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş
ABSTRACT:
This study examines political and interagency activity between two governments, a general-purpose urban municipality and a single purpose Great City School System in the United States. The conceptual and analytical backdrop that frames the investigation focuses on the connections between schooling and community revitalization employing several political science constructs and observations about the increasing role that general purpose government plays in public schooling. A strategic, instrumental mixed methods case study is applied to a Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPS) for Kids initiative in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Warner, 2009). Qualitative and quantitative data render intersectional and contrasting versions of the influence of general-purpose government in urban school system affairs. Findings indicate that authority and decision making may be too diffuse for general purpose government to realize comprehensive urban school renewal and that public perception of municipal government influence on its school district is more about positive impression than substantive change.
keywords: community development, education governance, mixed methods, politics of education, school reform