The High School “Space Race”

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9729686
AutoresMatthew Militello (0000-0002-6988-1868, North Carolina State University, autor correspondente), Scott Alan Metzger (0000-0003-1369-2141, Pennsylvania State University), Alex J Bowers (0000-0002-5140-6428, The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Ano2008
Volume41
Fascículo1
Páginas26-54
Data de publicação2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducation and Urban Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0013124508321358
OpenAlexW2011022275
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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