Often, when decentralized governance of this sort is used in schools, one of its central aims is to increase the voice of those who are not heard, or at least not much listened to, in the context of
typical school governance structures.
DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of
governance affects both charters and traditional public
schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including
school districts, charter authorizers, and other state and local entities — responsible for oversight in the
typical municipality, «making patchwork
governance the norm, rather than the exception» (p. 15).