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Follow the Money - How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics (Paperback)
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Follow the Money - How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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Some of the nation's wealthiest philanthropic organizations,
including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family
Foundation, and the Broad Foundation, have invested hundreds of
millions of dollars in education reform. With vast wealth and a
political agenda, these foundations have helped to reshape the
reform landscape in urban education. In Follow the Money, Sarah
Reckhow shows where and how foundation investment in education is
occurring and provides a penetrating analysis of the effects of
these investments in the two largest urban districts in the United
States: New York City and Los Angeles. In New York City,
centralized political control and the use of private resources have
enabled rapid implementation of reform proposals. Yet this potent
combination of top-down authority and outside funding also poses
serious questions about transparency, responsiveness, and
democratic accountability in New York. Furthermore, the
sustainability of reform policies is closely linked to the
political fortunes of the current mayor and his chosen school
leader. While the media has highlighted the efforts of forceful
reformers and dominating leaders such as Joel Klein in New York
City and Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., a slower, but possibly
more transformative, set of reforms have been taking place in Los
Angeles. These reforms were also funded and shaped by major
foundations, but they work from the bottom up, through charter
school operators managing networks of schools. This strategy has
built grassroots political momentum and demand for reform in Los
Angeles that is unmatched in New York City and other districts with
mayoral control. Reckhow's study of Los Angeles's education system
shows how democratically responsive urban school reform could
occur-pairing foundation investment with broad grassroots
involvement. Bringing a sharp analytical eye and a wealth of
evidence to one of the most politicized issues of our day, Follow
the Money will reshape our thinking about educational reform in
America.
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