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“What gets measured gets done”: An examination of policy implementation practices of charter school authorizers in Ohio

Adeeko, Omotayo O
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563478788629993

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Studies.
The purpose of this study was to examine how charter school authorizers conceptualize and navigate policy implementation as intermediary organizations. Through a phenomenological multi-site case study design, fifteen Ohio charter school authorizing staff across three organizations shared the ways in which they operate, navigate policy, access resources, and respond to the use of incentives and penalties in policy. With Honig’s (2004) theory of intermediary organizations as a conceptual framework, I explore the role of charter school authorizers as mediating actors of state-level policy. Three major findings are shared: 1) while charter school authorizers largely conceptualize their roles to be innovators and gatekeepers, the demands of policy requires them to be more; 2) authorizers rely heavily on the state-issued performance rubric in determining their organizational priorities; and 3) authorizers access a variety of organizational processes and resources in navigating policy implementation. Additionally, findings indicate that authorizers are generally unresponsive to the promises of incentives but do modify behavior to prevent the receipt of penalties. The dissertation concludes with a discussion on the isomorphic pressures of policy on organizational structure, implications for stakeholders, and recommendations for future research.
Karen Beard (Advisor)
Belinda Gimbert (Advisor)
James L. Moore III (Committee Member)
206 p.
Education; Education Policy; Educational Leadership
charter schools; charter school authorizers; charter school sponsors; school governance; education policy; school improvement; education reform; school system leadership; isomorphism; policy studies; school choice

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  • Adeeko, O. O. (2019). “What gets measured gets done”: An examination of policy implementation practices of charter school authorizers in Ohio [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563478788629993

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Adeeko, Omotayo. “What gets measured gets done”: An examination of policy implementation practices of charter school authorizers in Ohio. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563478788629993.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Adeeko, Omotayo. "“What gets measured gets done”: An examination of policy implementation practices of charter school authorizers in Ohio." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563478788629993

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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