Drawing on interviews with 88 middle school counselors tasked with implementing New York City’s high school choice policy, we show that counselors largely question the policy’s legitimacy and the equity of the high school assignments it produces. By highlighting issues of transparency and procedural fairness that threaten counselors’ acceptance of school choice policy, we offer lessons for policymakers and practitioners about how policy design and communication affect policy legitimacy and, as a result, implementation.

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学校辅导员对高中选择政策合法性的评估

通过对 88 名负责实施纽约市高中选择政策的中学辅导员的访谈，我们表明辅导员在很大程度上质疑该政策的合法性及其产生的高中作业的公平性。通过强调威胁辅导员接受择校政策的透明度和程序公平性问题，我们为政策制定者和从业者提供了关于政策设计和沟通如何影响政策合法性并进而影响政策实施的课程。