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ERIC Number: EJ557690
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0161-4681
The Invisible Hand: Big Business and Chicago School Reform.
Shipps, Dorothy
Teachers College Record, v99 n1 p73-116 Fall 1997
Examines Chicago's governance reforms as one case of corporate influence on public school policy making. Discusses the role of local political institutions and corporate organizational resources. Corporate associations were involved in both policymaking and policy implementation. (SM)
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Policy Formation, Politics of Education, Public Education, Public Schools, School Business Relationship, School Councils, School Policy, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Chicago Public Schools IL
Note: In special section: "Chicago School Reform."