38. Taking Care of (School-Governance) Business [Statewide]

I originally intended to fit something like this into the previous episode, but it clearly is too big. But here I'm talking about why local control of schools matters for us as citizens, what the state ought to be doing to invest in the cultivation of civic virtue, what districts can be doing to facilitate good conversations about schools, and ultimately, our own obligations as citizens to participate in the good governance of our public schools.LINKS:Wauwatosa's financial transparency page. Zerilli's Democratic Theory of JudgmentScribner's The Fight for Local Control Weinstein's Adam Smith's PluralismNeem's Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America Arendt's The Human ConditionCavell's The Claim of ReasonCavell's Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome