The Determinants of Local Public Education Reform

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The primary goal of this article is to find why a school district more actively conducts its own public education reform. For this, the author explicates whether the roles of both neighboring school district and governance factors have explanatory power for the local public education reform. Many scholars prove that these two factors positively or negatively influence public education reform at the state level. However, the literature review has not proven that it is clear whether their roles are still important in explaining public education reform at the local level. It is an academic contribution of this study to empirically confirm their roles in the local public education reform. This study explores this unexploited research topic by analyzing the variation of the public education reform case that is shown in Colorado’s school districts. To complete this academic goal, this study constructs seven hypotheses and tests them with a statistical tool. The final statistical results reveal that both neighboring school district and governance factors drive a school district to more actively reform its own traditional public education system. On the other hand, the concept of charter school introduced as an example of an innovative educational institution is expected to provide a new guideline for the Korean education reform.

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