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Title: Diverging Collective Goals: How Partisanship, Institution, and Locale Shape School Missions
Language: English
Authors: Valentina A. Bali (ORCID 0000-0002-0643-3590), Devin Higgins, Angela Perez
Source: Educational Policy. 2026 40(3):307-339.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 33
Publication Date: 2026
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Position Papers, Role of Education, Politics of Education, Charter Schools, Rural Schools, Place Based Education, School Location, Rural Urban Differences
Geographic Terms: Texas
DOI: 10.1177/08959048251337455
ISSN: 0895-9048
1552-3896
Abstract: Public education in the U.S. has traditionally aimed to balance both individual success, by fostering academic and personal growth, and collective benefits, by cultivating a responsible, tolerant, and skilled citizenry. Increasingly, these collective goals of schooling are being contested. In this study we assess the prevalence of key collective goals as expressed in school mission statements. We seek to understand whether the incidence of these collective goals varies by local partisan political leanings, institutional type (charter school status), and locale. Examining school mission statements from a national (N = 5,514) and a Texas (N = 3,146) sample of schools, we find that all three factors are influential. Our findings suggest a meaningful role for place-based cultural and partisan contexts shaping, and potentially reshaping, the communal purposes of public education.
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