ED7542 The Politics of P-12 Education
This course provides learners with a theoretical foundation of education policy and presents the basic analytical categories of political science as they apply to education. Topics include the influence of local, state, and federal governments in school finance, school policy making, school and community relations, privatization and choice, decentralization, desegregation, affirmative action, bilingual education, technology, and teacher empowerment. This course requires access to a P-12 classroom and/or educational stakeholders in a P-12 school or district. Cannot be fulfilled by transfer.