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A Critical Examination of School Board Governance Models: Imagining a Better Future
Sun, April 12, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 10Session Type: Symposium
Abstract
This panel critically examines school board governance through five interrelated studies focused on Student Outcomes Focused Governance and its Texas-specific adaptation, Lone Star Governance. Drawing from organizational theory, policy implementation, and institutional perspectives, we collectively explore how these models are interpreted, enacted, and challenged in local contexts. Topics include survey instrument validation, governance coherence, democratic tensions in data use, and the political-historical foundations of reform. Collectively, we interrogate the promises and limits of these models of outcome-focused governance, highlighting how policy design and implementation are realized in practice, while also reproducing or disrupting inequities. Together, our papers contribute to AERA’s 2026 theme by unforgetting histories and imagining futures where governance reform meaningfully centers justice, equity, and community-based accountability.
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How Should School Boards Govern?: Visions from Three Board Governance Models - Sarah Diem, University of Missouri; Erica O. Turner, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Christina Bustos, Arizona State University
“Qui bono?”: The Impacts of Lone Star Governance on Districts and School Boards - Rachel Sue White, University of Texas at Austin; Christina Bustos, Arizona State University; Lolita A. Tabron, University of Denver
Student Outcomes Focused Governance in Seattle: Gaps in Student Outcome Data and Troubling Narratives in Practice - Carrie Sampson, Arizona State University; Ronnie Angel Chavez, Arizona State University; Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Arizona State University; Margarita Pivovarova, Arizona State University; Grace Louise Beall, Arizona State University
Validating a Survey Instrument to Assess School Board Members’ Perceptions of Texas’s Lone Star Governance (LSG) Model - Brandon J. Yuhas, Arizona State University; Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, Arizona State University; Margarita Pivovarova, Arizona State University; Grace Louise Beall, Arizona State University
Technocratic or Democratic? How Data Cultures Shape Success, Decision-Making, and Accountability in School Board Governance - Lolita A. Tabron, University of Denver; John Matthew Fredericks, Arizona State University; Ashley Yung Batchelor, Arizona State University