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Three Essays on K-12 Public Education Administration and Societal Inequities

Yaluma, Christopher Bwalya
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3091-0745
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714963785512438

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Public Policy and Management.
How government delivers public services can have broad societal effects, beyond the impact on programmatic outcomes. Such societal effects are particularly likely in the delivery of public education, as educational concerns drive residential and school choices, and public schools are the second largest public employer in the United States. My dissertation explores how innovations in the way we administer public education may affect societal inequities by race, gender, academic ability, and socioeconomic status. The first essay examines how the emergence of online “virtual” public schooling, which families within a state can access regardless of where they live, has affected school-based segregation by race and poverty. The second essay examines the impact of the sudden closure of a large virtual charter school on district segregation by race and academic ability. Finally, the third essay estimates the impact of introducing teacher collective bargaining—which empowers teachers in the management of public schools—on the diversity of staff and employment and pay of women. Overall, this dissertation explores how education administration affects with whom students interact in school and who has access to quality public sector jobs—all of which, in turn, have well documented long-term impacts on children.
Stéphane Lavertu (Advisor)
141 p.
Economic Theory; Economics; Education; Education Policy; Educational Evaluation; Educational Technology; Experiments; Public Administration; Public Policy; Social Research
charter schools; virtual; online; race; poverty; segregation; inequality; enrollment; public-sector; collective bargaining; teachers unions; student attainment; school finance; school districts

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  • Yaluma, C. B. (2024). Three Essays on K-12 Public Education Administration and Societal Inequities [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714963785512438

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yaluma, Christopher. Three Essays on K-12 Public Education Administration and Societal Inequities. 2024. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714963785512438.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yaluma, Christopher. "Three Essays on K-12 Public Education Administration and Societal Inequities." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714963785512438

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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