First Year Implementation of the School to Work Opportunities Act Policy: An Effort at Backward Mapping

Creator

Arthur M. Recesso

Files

Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

March 1999

Abstract

This study examined the intent of federal policy and the actual implementation within local school districts. Specifically, the focus is on the Federal School to Work Opportunities Act of 1994 and its implementation in 47 school districts in upstate New York as part of a consortium during the 1995-96 school year. The purpose of the study was to determine 1) the extent to which an agreement to participate in a consortium arrangement designed to facilitate the implementation of a specific Federal or state policy resulted in the active implementation efforts by individual consortium members, and 2) how a high school setting where School to Work activities were perceived by local stakeholders as having great specific and important effects differed from a high school setting where School to Work activities were perceived by local stakeholders as having some or no effect. A bottom-up backward mapping policy analysis model was used for the purposes of this study.

Keywords

United States. School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994

Extent

43

Volume

7

Issue

11

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00123

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Recesso, Arthur M., "First Year Implementation of the School to Work Opportunities Act Policy: An Effort at Backward Mapping" (1999). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 27.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/27