Nicole Stelle Garnett
Nicole Stelle Garnett
John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law
LAMB Faculty Fellow
574-631-3091
ngarnett@nd.edu
Spotlight Reserach: Post-Accountability Accountability
Over the past few decades, parental choice has exploded in the United States. Yet, despite early proponents’ hopes that parental choice would eliminate the need to regulate school quality—since parents’ choices would serve an accountability function—demands to use the law to hold chosen schools accountable for their academic performance are central features of education-reform debates today. This is an opportune time to consider the issue of academic accountability and parental choice. Parental choice has gained a firm foothold in the American educational landscape. As it continues to expand, debates about accountability for chosen schools will only intensify. The questions of whether, when, and how the law ought to regulate the quality of the schools participating in parental-choice programs are important and vexing ones for the law of education. This Article examines these questions and proposes principles to guide regulatory design efforts.
Citation: Nicole S. Garnett, Post-Accountability Accountability, 52 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 157 (2018).
Other Research
- “The Comparative Landscape of Educational Pluralism,” in progress
- “A Case for Educational Pluralism,” 5 Education Law and Policy Review 35 (2019)
- Planning for Density: Promises, Perils and a Paradox,” 33 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 1 (2018)
- “Metes and Bounds: A Revisionist History,” Property JOTWELL, September 11, 2018
- “Sector Agnosticism and the Coming Transformation of Education Law,” 70 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2017)
