Shaping Collective Goals in School Mission Statements: State Variations, Charter Status, and Local Partisanship

• In Event: Education Policy and a Divided Public

Brief Overview

Using text analysis, we analyze school mission statements from a national and a Texan sample of schools to uncover the prevalence of collective goals in school missions and how they may be mediated by region, charter status, and local partisanship.

Authors

• Valentina Andrea Bali, Michigan State University

• Angela Perez, Michigan State University

• Devin Higgins, Michigan State University