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Practicing Parental Involvement: Heterogeneity in Parent Involvement Structures in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
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Boylan, Rebecca L.; Petts, Amy; Renzulli, Linda; Domina, Thurston; Murray, Brittany – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: This study examines differences in the mechanisms that charter schools and traditional public schools use to facilitate parental school involvement and the degree to which these differences account for the high levels of involvement among charter school parents. Data and Research Methods: We merge data from principals and teachers from…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Differences
Principal Influence in Teacher Hiring: Documenting Decentralization over Time
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Engel, Mimi; Cannata, Marisa; Curran, F. Chris – Journal of Educational Administration, 2018
Purpose: Over the past decade, policy researchers and advocates have called for the decentralization of teacher hiring decisions from district offices to school principals. The purpose of this paper is to document the trends across two and a half decades in principals' reported influence over teacher hiring decisions in the USA and explore how and…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Selection, School Districts, Administrative Organization
Gender, Career Paths, and Bureaucratic Ambition in Public Schools
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Maranto, Robert A.; Teodoro, Manuel; Carroll, Kristen; Cheng, Albert – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This study explores the relationships between gender, career ambition, and the emergence of executive leadership in the bureaucracy. In "Bureaucratic Ambition," Teodoro (2011) shows that public administration career paths shape individual ambition, political behavior, and policy innovation. But career systems are not neutral conduits of…
Descriptors: Sex, Occupational Aspiration, Administrative Organization, Public Schools
Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools. Research Brief
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Stuit, David; Smith, Thomas M. – National Center on School Choice, Vanderbilt University (NJ1), 2010
The current study aimed to contribute to a deeper understanding of the organizational conditions of charter schools by examining teacher turnover. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS), researchers from the National Center on School…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Teacher Characteristics, Public School Teachers
Teams versus Bureaucracies: Personnel Policy, Wage-Setting, and Teacher Quality in Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools
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Podgursky, Michael – Education Working Paper Archive, 2006
This paper examines reasons why personnel policy and wage setting differ between traditional public, private, and charter schools and the effects of these policies on academic measures of teacher quality. Survey and administrative data suggest that the regulatory freedom, small size of wage-setting units, and a competitive market environment make…
Descriptors: Personnel Policy, Wages, Differences, Public Schools
A Research Agenda for the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey. Working Paper No. 2000-10
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McGrath, Daniel J.; Luekens, Michael T. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2000
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) serves two important purposes for the educational community. The first purpose, at which SASS has been very successful, is providing data that describe and track over time the state of schools and staffing (the capacities of teachers, school libraries, schools, and school districts, and the organization of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data, Administrative Organization, Teaching (Occupation)