Calendrier du 11 juillet 2024
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 11/07/2024 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R1-09
DUCHINI Emma (University of Essex)
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT TAKEOVER, LEADERSHIP CHANGE, AND PERSONNEL POLICY
écrit avec Victor Lavy, Stephen Machin, Shqiponja TelhaJ
Low-performing, high-poverty, public schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain good
teachers. This paper studies a setting where independent organizations, including charities and
businesses, take over the management of under-performing schools, while funding remains
public. Exploiting the staggered expansion of English Sponsor-led academies since the early
2000s, we show that the Sponsor-led takeover leads to substantial changes in the teaching body
and the school personnel policy. The probability that the Sponsor appoints a new headteacher
doubles upon the takeover, with the new headteacher being, on average, better paid, and more
likely to come from outstanding schools. The takeover also induces teacher sorting, with older
and lower-achieving teachers leaving the school, and new teachers joining the Sponsor-led school
from outstanding schools. Lastly, Sponsors substantially restructure teachers’ rewarding scheme
and abandon a pay scale entirely based on seniority, leading to a 10 percent increase in pay
dispersion across equally experienced teachers.