The success of many students with disabilities (SWDs) depends on access to high-quality general education teachers. Yet, most measures of teacher...
Katharine O. Strunk
Katharine O. Strunk is a professor of education policy and the Clifford E. Erickson Distinguished Chair in Education. She is also co-director of the Michigan State University Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC) and an associate editor of the journal Education Finance and Policy. Strunk’s research is focused on three areas under the broad umbrella of K-12 education governance: teachers’ unions and the collective bargaining agreements they negotiate with school districts, teacher evaluation and compensation, and accountability policies. Rooted in the fields of economics and public policy, Strunk’s work centers on structures that are central to district operations and policy and the ways these structures affect policymakers’ decisions and outcomes. Her recent work includes studying teacher labor market responses to policy reforms in Michigan, teacher and school accountability and support policies in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and portfolio management reforms in LA, Denver and New Orleans.
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In this paper we use data from two states—Michigan and Washington—on COVID case rates at the county level linked to information on the type of...
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While the majority of students with disabilities (SWDs) receive instruction from general education teachers, little empirical work has...
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