id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000243891000009 Lacircno-Paquet, N Moving forward or sliding backward - The evolution of charter school policies in Michigan and the district of Columbia 2007 .txt text/plain 135 5 60 The authors argue that dramatic new policies brought about by a radical reconfiguration of interests and politics are frequently short lived, though new policies are rarely erased; instead, they reach a compromise between competing sets of interests. They find in Michigan that the original law, dramatic in the breadth of its change to public education, has slowly reverted to reflect a balance of power between the ideal positions preferred by pro- and anti-charter school interests. cache/WOS-000243891000009.txt txt/WOS-000243891000009.txt