Artifacts of accountability : a case study of California's local control funding formula
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Accountability and evaluation systems are pervasive throughout the U.S. K-12 education system. Former reform efforts, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), used high stakes testing and punitive sanctions in combination with incentives to shape organizational practices according to desired outcomes. More recent developments in federal and state legislation, however, have given rise to a new type of accountability system that relies less on singular rankings or ratings, provides support rather than punishment, and extends local control to school districts. The changes occurring in California via the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) set the stage for this new era of accountability, which incorporates some elements from the previous system while also introducing new evaluation components. These shifts provide an opportunity to examine accountability under a new policy context. How do school districts respond to these changes? Through qualitative content analysis of accountability documents, known as Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs), I conduct two studies to better understand how school districts justify resource allocation to their varied institutional audiences and to investigate how school districts make sense of performance outcomes in narrative form. Ultimately, I claim that these documents represent artifacts of accountability, which reveal how organizations avoid, negotiate, or resolve tensions in public priorities and values.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Mercado-Garcia, Diana Gabriela |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Hakuta, Kenji |
| Degree supervisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Thesis advisor | Hakuta, Kenji |
| Thesis advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Thesis advisor | Bromley, Patricia, (Assistant professor of education) |
| Degree committee member | Bromley, Patricia, (Assistant professor of education) |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Diana Gabriela Mercado-Garcia. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/wg296tj4589 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Diana Gabriela Mercado-Garcia
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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