Professional Background
Associate Professor of Education
Educational Background
* Ph.D. in Division of Policy, Organizations, Measurement, and Evaluation, University of California, Berkeley
Scholarly Interests
- education policy
- decentralization in education
- school choice (charter schools, vouchers, home schooling, tuition tax credits)
- privatization in education
- school finance
Selected Publications
Articles
Huerta, L. A. (2009). Institutional vs. technical environments: Reconciling the goals of decentralization in an evolving charter school organization. Peabody Journal of Education, 84(2), 244-261.
Huerta, L. A. & Zuckerman, A. (2009). An institutional theory analysis of charter schools: Addressing challenges to scale. Peabody Journal of Education, 84(3), 414-431.
Bodine, E., Fuller, B., González, M. F., Huerta, L. A., Naughton, S., Park, S., Teh, L. W. (2008). Disparities in charter school resources: The influence of state policy and community conditions. Journal of Education Policy, 23(1), 1-33.
Huerta, L. A. & d’Entremont, C. (2007). Education tax credits in a post-Zelman era: Legal, political and policy alternative to vouchers? Educational Policy, January/March 21(1), 73-109.
d’Entremont, C. & Huerta, L. A. (2007). Irreconcilable differences? Education vouchers and the suburban response. Educational Policy, January/March 21(1), 40-72.
Greene, G. K., Huerta, L. A. & Richards, C. E. (2007). Getting real: A different perspective on the relationship between school resources and student outcomes. Journal of Education Finance, 33(1), 49-68.
Huerta, L. A., González, M. F. & d’Entremont, C. (2006). Cyber and home school charter schools: Adopting policy to new forms of public schooling. Peabody Journal of Education, 81(1), 103-139.
Huerta, L. A., d’Entremont, C &. González, M. F. (2006). Cyber charter schools: Can accountability keep pace with innovation? Phi Delta Kappan, September, 23-30.
Huerta, L. A. (2006). Next steps for results: The improved school finance and the CFE v. State of New York case. Journal of Education Finance, 31(4), 379-394.
Grubb, W. N., Huerta, L. A. & Goe, L. (2006). Straw into gold, revenues into results: Spinning out the implications of the improved school finance. Journal of Education Finance, 31(4), 334-359.
Grubb, W. N., Goe, L., & Huerta, L. A. (2004). The unending search for equity: California policy, the improved school finance, and the Williams case. Teachers College Record, 106(11), 2081-2101.
Book Chapters
Huerta, L. A., d’Entremont, C. & González, M. F. (2009). Perspective on cyber and homeschool charters. In M. Berends, M. Springer, D. Ballou and H. Walberg (Eds.), Handbook of Research on School Choice (pp.533-550), National Center on School Choice, Vanderbilt University and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2009).
Huerta, L. A. & Hatch, T. (2009). School reform. In R. A. Shweder (Ed.) The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (pgs. 863-865), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Huerta, L. A. & Hatch, T. (2009). School reform. In R. A. Shweder (Ed.) The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (pgs. 863-865), Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Huerta, L. A. (2000). The loss of public accountability? A home schooling charter school in rural California. In B. Fuller (Ed.), Inside charter schools: The paradox of radical decentralization. (pp. 177-202), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Wexler, E. & Huerta, L. A. (2000). An empowering spirit is not enough: A Latino charter school struggles over leadership. In B. Fuller (Ed.), Inside charter schools: The paradox of radical decentralization. (pp. 98-123), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Finkelstein, N., Furry, W., & Huerta, L. A. (2000). School finance in California: Does history provide a sufficient policy standard? In E. Burr, G. C. Hayward, B. Fuller & M. W. Kirst (Eds.) Crucial issues in California education 2000: Are the reform pieces fitting together (pp.45-78). Berkeley, CA: Policy Analysis for California Education, University of California.
Opinion-Editorials
Huerta, L. A. & Fuller, B. (2008, July 7). Scorekeeper for schools. New York Sun, Opinion–Editorial, p.B8.
Berliner, D., Farrel, W., Huerta, L. A., Mickelson, R. (2001, February 22). Vouchers: No solution to educating the poor. Arizona Republic, Opinion-Editorial, p. B9.
Huerta, L. A. (2000, October 19). Proposition 38 makes promises it cannot keep. San Francisco Chronicle, Opinion-Editorial, p. A3.
Fuller, B. & Huerta, L. A. (2000, July 20). State action deserves a lot of credit for better test scores. Los Angeles Times, Opinion-Editorial, p. B11.

Luis A Huerta
Associate Professor of Education
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