The Fight for Local Control : : Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy / / Campbell F. Scribner.
Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment t...
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Scribner, Campbell F., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Fight for Local Control : Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy / Campbell F. Scribner. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (256 p.) : 7 halftones, 4 line figures, 3 maps, 2 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda American Institutions and Society Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Past Found -- 1. The Meaning of Local Control -- 2. The Long History of School District Consolidation -- 3. The Exurban Exchange -- 4. The Struggle for Status -- 5. The Fight for Funding -- 6. Tax Revolts -- 7. The Battle of Ideas -- 8. Redefining Parents' Rights -- Conclusion. A Past Lost -- Bibliographic Note -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those values was shifting and selective. In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law. Scribner's account unfolds on the metropolitan fringe, where rapid suburbanization overlapped with the consolidation of thousands of small rural schools. Rural residents initially clashed with their new neighbors, but by the 1960s the groups had rallied to resist government oversight. What began as residual opposition to school consolidation would transform into campaigns against race-based busing, unionized teachers, tax equalization, and secular curriculum. In case after case, suburban conservatives carved out new rights for local autonomy, stifling equal educational opportunity.Yet Scribner also provides insight into why many conservatives have since abandoned localism for policies that stress school choice and federal accountability. In the 1970s, as new battles arose over unions, textbooks, and taxes, districts on the rural-suburban fringe became the first to assert individual choice in the form of school vouchers, religious exemptions, and a marketplace model of education. At the same time, they began to embrace tax limitation and standardized testing, policies that checked educational bureaucracy but bypassed local school boards. The effect, Scribner concludes, has been to reinforce inequalities between districts while weakening participatory government within them, keeping the worst aspects of local control in place while forfeiting its virtues. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Democracy and education United States History 20th century. Education and state United States History 20th century. Education Political aspects United States History 20th century. Educational change Political aspects United States History 20th century. Suburban schools United States History 20th century. Education & History Of Education. U.S. History. EDUCATION / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 9783110667493 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2016 9783110485189 ZDB-23-DEG print 9781501700804 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501704116 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501704116 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501704116/original |
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