Chapters 7 and 8

1. Social Equity and
Public Administration
Chapters 7 and 8

2. Chapter 7 ; Social Equity, Law and
Research
▪ Equity in the Law – Greater equality has occurred in the past century
▪ Government services and contracting
▪ Education

4. Issues the author presents
▪ A Paradigm of anti-
bureaucracy, anti-government
and anti-tax, (Agree or
Disagree)
▪ Even as more public
administrators have sought for
social equity, we’ve
experienced greater inequality.
▪ The issues lie in the broadness
that equality and equity extend

6. Chapter 8
When Education Quality Speaks, Education Equality Answers

7. Defining this Chapter
What is Equality
Is there equal access?
Is there equal funding?
Do demographics change the
outcome of the education?
What is Quality
How well are the students
meeting expectations?
How are test scores compared to
other schools?
Grades

8. The Correlation and Differences between
Equality and Quality
▪ The Arc of Education Equality
Reform
1. Brown vs Board of Education
2. ESEA 1965
3. IDEA 1990
The results are unfunded
mandates left with a still pressing
issue of quality gaps.
Fair

9. Continued.....
▪ The Arc of Education Quality
Reform
1. A Nation At Risk – 1979
2. No Child Left Behind – 2001
The change from equality to
quality in the 90’s and 2000’s
focused the attention on bad
schools and failing teachers while
failing to recognize key problems
still exist in means of equity.
Test

10. Public Administration Responsibilities
Recognizing the issues
with public education in
terms of both equality and
quality and recognizing
that having one without
the other is fundamentally
impossible.

11. Conclusions
Social justice requires
public administrators to
not only recognize
equality, but to use it as
a fundamental
cornerstone of policy
making and to extend
that with the law and
policies available. This
is also important in
regards to education as
it is a vital importance in
achieving social justice
to educate the
population equally.