2004-

This project seeks to understand the local politics that emerge from federal claims to authority over public education. It examines these issues through a close exploration on one school district (Alexandria, Virginia) over a 40 year period, through four policy lenses: desegregation, special education, bilingual education and migration, No Child Left Behind. Employing historical archival resources as well as historical and contemporary Geographic Information Systems data analysis, this book-length project seeks understand the local dimensions of federal changes to public education in an effort to understand changes in political meaning of local control and the limits to federal authority in public education and education reform.

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