Inside Charter Schools

The Paradox of Radical Decentralization

Edited by Bruce Fuller.

Contributors: Jennifer Jellison Holme, Luis Huerta, Eric Rofes, Amy Stuart Wells, Ash Vasudeva, Edward Wexler, Patty Yancey, and Kate Zernike

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Growing Charier Schools, Decentering the State
    Bruce Fuller

    The Public Square, Big or Small? Charter Schools in Political Context
    Bruce Fuller

    We Hold on to Our Kids, We Hold on Tight: Tandem Charters in Michigan
    Patty Yancey

    An Empowering Spirit Is Not Enough: A Latino Charter School Struggles over Leadership
    Edward Wexler and Luis A. Huerta

    Selling Air: New England Parents Spark a New Revolution
    Kate Zernike

    Diversity and Inequality: Montera Charter High School
    Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme and Ash Vasudeva

    Losing Public Accountability: A Home Schooling Charter
    Luis A. Huerta

    Teachers as Communitarians: A Charter School Cooperative in Minnesota
    Eric Rofes

    Breaking Away or Pulling Together? Making Decentralization Work
    Bruce Fuller

    Notes

    Contributors

    Index

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Bruce Fuller is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education at the University of California, Berkeley.