Coign of Vantage and Action: Considering California’s Local Accountability and School Finance Plans for English Learners

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Autor principal: Julian Vasquez Heilig
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contents Coign of Vantage and Action: Considering California’s Local Accountability and School Finance Plans for English Learners Julian Vasquez Heilig Lisa S. Romero Megan Hopkins Educación LCF LCAP school finance English learners Local control accountability Local control has bee n a bed rock principle of public schooling in America since its inception. In 2013, the California Legislature codified a new loc al accountability approach for school finance. An important component of the new California Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) approach is a focus on English learners (ELs ). The law mand ates that every school district produce a Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP ) to engage the loc al community in defining outcomes and determining funding for ELs. Based on an exploratory analysis of a representative sample of LCAPs, we show that, although California’s new approach offered an opportunity to support locally -defined priorities and alternatives to top-down accountability, few if any districts had yet t a k en full advantage of the opportunity. That is, the school districts in our sample had not yet engaged with the local community to facilitate significant changes to accountability or redistribution of fund ing and resources to support educational equity for ELs. 2017 artículo científico 1068-2341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=275050047021 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=2750 Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas application/pdf Arizona State University Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas (Estados Unidos de América) Vol.25
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publishDate 2017
publisher Arizona State University
spellingShingle Coign of Vantage and Action: Considering California’s Local Accountability and School Finance Plans for English Learners
Julian Vasquez Heilig
Educación
LCF
LCAP
school finance
English learners
Local control accountability
Coign of Vantage and Action: Considering California’s Local Accountability and School Finance Plans for English Learners Julian Vasquez Heilig Lisa S. Romero Megan Hopkins Educación LCF LCAP school finance English learners Local control accountability Local control has bee n a bed rock principle of public schooling in America since its inception. In 2013, the California Legislature codified a new loc al accountability approach for school finance. An important component of the new California Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) approach is a focus on English learners (ELs ). The law mand ates that every school district produce a Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP ) to engage the loc al community in defining outcomes and determining funding for ELs. Based on an exploratory analysis of a representative sample of LCAPs, we show that, although California’s new approach offered an opportunity to support locally -defined priorities and alternatives to top-down accountability, few if any districts had yet t a k en full advantage of the opportunity. That is, the school districts in our sample had not yet engaged with the local community to facilitate significant changes to accountability or redistribution of fund ing and resources to support educational equity for ELs. 2017 artículo científico 1068-2341 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=275050047021 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=2750 Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas application/pdf Arizona State University Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas (Estados Unidos de América) Vol.25
title Coign of Vantage and Action: Considering California’s Local Accountability and School Finance Plans for English Learners
topic Educación
LCF
LCAP
school finance
English learners
Local control accountability
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=275050047021