The High School “Space Race”

Implications of a School-Choice Market Environment for a Michigan Metropolitan Region

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9729686
AutoresMatthew Militello (0000-0002-6988-1868, North Carolina State University, autor de correspondencia), Scott Alan Metzger (0000-0003-1369-2141, Pennsylvania State University), Alex J Bowers (0000-0002-5140-6428, The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Año2008
Volumen41
Número1
Páginas26-54
Fecha de publicación2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124508321358
OpenAlexW2011022275
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas17

This article examines the implications of competition between school districts in a mid-Michigan metropolitan area. Over the 10-year period after Michigan's major school-funding reform in 1994, many urban and suburban districts found themselves competing for per-pupil state funding. Suburban districts need extra students to make up budgetary shortfalls and protect instructional programs that are essential in today's political climate of school accountability. Several districts in this study built new or substantially renovated state-of-the-art high schools, possibly illustrating a space race between the districts to build bigger, better, newer capital assets that attract pupils and residential development. The central city district, surrounded by growing suburbs with higher-value taxable property, is at a disadvantage in this competition

Accountability · Competition (biology · Disadvantage · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science · Higher Education Research Studies · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · School Choice and Performance