Regional Governance in Education: A Case Study of the Metro Area Learning Community in Omaha, Nebraska
Regional Governance in Education: A Case Study of the Metro Area Learning Community in Omaha, Nebraska
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教育区域治理：内布拉斯加州奥马哈都会区学习社区案例研究
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2015
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Sarah Diem
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J. J. Holme;Sarah Diem
本文探讨了2007年在内布拉斯加州奥马哈大都市区创建的第一个公共教育区域治理改革。这一区域改革的立法称为学习社区，设立了一个区域管理机构，即学习社区协调理事会，由选举产生的21名成员组成。该委员会监督一项重新分配一般收入的税收分享计划，一项区际多样性转移计划，以及旨在提高低收入学生幼儿和课后机会的方案。在这篇文章中，我们研究学习社区的实施，评估区域管理机构在多大程度上能够推进它所负责的区域目标。本文还说明了如何，作为区域治理改革的结果，奥马哈大都市区内的学区正在重新评估“当地社区”的定义。
This article examines the first regional governance reform in public education, created in the Omaha, Nebraska metropolitan area in 2007. The legislation creating this regional reform, which is called the Learning Community, established a regional governing body, the Learning Community Coordinating Council, consisting of an elected 21-member board. The board oversees a tax-sharing plan that redistributes general revenue, an interdistrict diversity transfer program, and programming aimed at enhancing early childhood and after-school opportunities for low-income students. In this article, we examine the implementation of the Learning Community, evaluating the extent to which the regional governing body has been able to advance the regional goals with which it has been charged. This article also illustrates how, as a result of the regional governance reforms, school districts within the Omaha metropolitan area are reevaluating the very definition of “local community.”