| dc.description.abstract | 482Forward is a citywide education-organizing network in Detroit comprised of community-led advocacy groups, neighborhood organizations, parents, and youth committed to ensuring that all Detroit children have access to an excellent education. 482Forward, in partnership with other community-based organizations created the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren (CFDS). The CFDS advocacy group worked together to create legislative recommendations for how Detroit should improve its chaotic and inequitable school ecosystem. In March of 2015, the Coalition released their recommendations which included, but was not limited to, the creation of the Detroit Education Commission to help coordinate education functions in the city of Detroit. In June 2016, the State of Michigan House of Representatives passed the modified package of CFDS’s recommendations that did not include the creation of a Detroit Education Commission. This policy recommendation was removed from the bill. In this study, I will investigate the policy process undertaken by 482Forward as a member of the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren. I will explore at which point(s) in the policy process the progression was either interrupted or incomplete. The present research project utilized a mixed-method approach for policy analysis to investigate the aforementioned research questions. In applying Kingdon’s Three Stream Model, my study analyzed how an idea “to create a new non-partisan entity, the Detroit Education Commission, to coordinate and rationalize citywide education functions” met enough survival across the three streams—problem, policy, and political—to move onto the decision agenda. But it did not meet the necessary criteria to move from the decision agenda into legislative action. | en_US |
