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Title: Reclaiming Educational Fraud and Waste: A Conceptual Framework to Locate the True Sources of Resource Leakage and Harm in the U.S. K-12 System. EdWorkingPaper No. 25-1267
Language: English
Authors: James Bridgeforth, Amanda Lu, Amanda Pickett, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Source: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. 2025.
Availability: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: annenberg@brown.edu; Web site: https://annenberg.brown.edu/
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 47
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: Deception, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Failure, Charter Schools, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Privatization, Administrative Organization, Government Role
Geographic Terms: Arizona
Abstract: The recent dismantling of federal educational institutions has been legitimated under the banner of "eliminating fraud and waste." In this paper, we reclaim these terms to locate the sources of potential fraud and waste in the U.S. K-12 education system through a novel conceptual framework that centers both structural components and the actions of educational actors. We posit that overdiagnosing failure within the public education system, coupled with a lack of regulation of private actors, are the true sources of potential fraud and waste in the system. We apply this framework to the Arizona charter school market to illuminate how it can be used by policymakers and researchers to understand particular contexts in which fraud and waste are prevalent.
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