1 / 13

Chapter 6- The Major Education Policy Actors

Chapter 6- The Major Education Policy Actors. Dr. Dan Bertrand LEEA 554. The Dramatis Personae of the Policy Drama. The individuals or groups who are actively involved in the policy process. Collectively they make up the Dramatis Personae or cast of characters.

sanam
Download Presentation

Chapter 6- The Major Education Policy Actors

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chapter 6- The Major Education Policy Actors Dr. Dan Bertrand LEEA 554

  2. The Dramatis Personae of the Policy Drama • The individuals or groups who are actively involved in the policy process. • Collectively they make up the Dramatis Personae or cast of characters. • Why focus on state level policy actors • US Constitution 10th amendment. • Ranking of State Level - Education Policy Actors • Individual legislatures • Chief state school officer • Educational interest groups • Teachers organizations

  3. Most Influential Education Groups • Teacher Unions • State Departments of Education • School Board Associations • Administrators Associations • PTA • Who are the most influential education and business interest groups in IL?

  4. Government Actors • Legislative Branch • Function and Structure • Functions • Development and passage of Statues • Approve the State Budget • Exercise investigatory function • Review laws, hold hearings, establish task forces • Structure • Senate- President of the Senate and Lt. Governor • House of Representatives-Speaker, Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Whip • Committees • Political Party Caucuses

  5. Other Government Actors • Legislative Staff • Clerical, professional, centralized staff agency • Important Legislative Actors • Education committees • Finance committees • Powerful speaker

  6. EXECUTIVE BRANCH • Governors • Institutional power • Little influence over education policy. • Powerful governors • National Governors Conference • State Board of Education • Responsible for K-12 and CTE (Voc. Ed.) • Policy Tasks • Education laws, certification requirements, assessment programs, graduation requirements, accreditation

  7. Other Executive Positions • Chief State School Officials • State Departments of Education • Important in policy process • Provide education committee with data • Oversee and monitor compliance of new laws • May ignore, block or dilute legislation when writing rules • Can monitor districts to varied degrees • Activity p. 162- determine how the SBE and CSSO are selected in IL.

  8. JUDICIAL BRANCH • 2 tiered (11states) – trial or circuit court and supreme court • or 3 tiered court systems- circuit, appellate and supreme • Higher courts only rule on correctness of legal procedures and the soundness of the judges legal interpretation. • Judges can be influential over education policy through their interpretation of statute. • Ex.) Supreme Court ruling • Groups with policy agendas try to influence courts.

  9. Non- Governmental Actors • Education Interest Groups • Teachers unions • NSBA • AASA • PTA • Non-Education Interest Groups • Business • Religious • Ethnic • Policy Networks • Education Commission of the States • Business Coalition for Education • Children’s Defense Fund

  10. Policy Planning Organizations • Think Tanks • Gather data about public policy issues and communicate to government • Widget Effect • Determine which social problems will be considered public policy issues. • The most important actors in the policy process. • Sponsor policy entrepreneurs. • Gates Foundation, Center for Education PolicyRobertson Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, Carnegie Corporation and the Walton Family Foundation.

  11. Identifying and Learning about Policy Actors • Locating elected government officials • District office, telephone book, public library, the internet, League of Women Voters, Politicians offices, Newspapers • Identifying Appointed Officials and Groups • SDE directory • Telephone book • Organizational Headquarters • Identifying Policy Planning and Related Org. • Recent policy papers • Newspapers • Education Week

  12. Media • Print • Broadcast • Wire services • On-line services • Internet • Report on policy issues and their stages but are also important actors in it.

  13. Activity • Read the News Story for Analysis- New IEA Chief Seeks to Unify Members p. 162

More Related