Abstract
Drawing on interviews with 88 middle school counselors tasked with implementing New York City’s high school choice policy, we show that counselors largely question the policy’s legitimacy and the equity of the high school assignments it produces. By highlighting issues of transparency and procedural fairness that threaten counselors’ acceptance of school choice policy, we offer lessons for policymakers and practitioners about how policy design and communication affect policy legitimacy and, as a result, implementation.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 21-42 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Educational Policy |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2020 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Education
Keywords
- legitimacy
- loose coupling
- policy implementation
- school choice
- school counselors