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McKnight, University of Alabama at Birmingham  \nAbstract  \nPolicy debates about charter schools are often dominated by polarizing emotional narratives. However scholarly attention on narratives in education policy, and especially narratives about charter schools in local contexts, has been limited. The recently developed Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) approach offers guidelines to systematically study the narrative elements and strategies that policy actors use to influence policy debates. Relying on NPF, we conducted a content analysis of editorials and op-eds on charter schools from three local newspapers published in the 10 year period before the adoption of the legislation to answer the following questions: How did the editorials and op-eds in local newspapers cover charter schools prior to adoption of the legislation? Specifically, is it possible to identify core structural elements e.g. setting, characters, plot, and morals of policy stories in these narratives? Do these elements differ by endorsed policy solution? Narrative elements in the form of policy solutions, story types, causal mechanisms, and characters were identifiable, and their use differed by the endorsed policy solution. The concluding section discusses the role of local policy stories in public policy making, and proposes directions for future research.  \nKeywords: Narrative policy framework, charter schools, policy narratives, education policy, policy stories, local media  \nIntroduction  \nPolicy debates in the public arena are increasingly dominated by polarizing emotional narratives. Education policy is no exception. Some scholars even contended that the politics of educational policy can best be explained by a theory of political spectacle ,“with directors, stages, cast of actors, narrative plots, and a curtain that separates the action on stage—what the audience has access to—from the backstage, where the real ‘allocation of values’ takes place”(Smith et al., 2004, p. 11). As the American public has increasingly been subjected to political hyperbole concerning the success, failure, and goals of public schools, numerous reform efforts have been introduced by national, state, and local policymakers. One such policy is introduction of charter schools, defined as “a publicly funded school that is typically governed by a group or organization under a legislative contract (or charter) with the state, district, or other entity”(NCES, 2019) . Educators, policymakers, advocates, and skeptics disagree about almost every issue concerning charter schools from their purpose to their effects on achievement, equity or accountability. High levels of disagreement  \nis often associated with larger ideological conflicts, and selective use of evidence and divergent narratives (Carnoy et al., 2005, Fabricant & Fine, 2015; Henig, 2008) .  \nWhile similar education reforms are spreading globally, the way in which they translate into local policy practices is based on constant and active reinterpretation and modification by local political actors (Verger, 2014, p. 15) . Nevertheless scholarly attention on narratives in education policy, and especially narratives about charter schools in local contexts, has been limited. This study aims to fill this gap by relying on the recently developed Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) approach, which offers guidelines to systematically study the narrative elements and strategies that policy actors use to influence policy debates (Jones and McBeth, 2010) . Focusing on editorials and op-eds in local newspapers, this study asks: How did the editorials and op-ed articles in local newspapers cover charter schools prior to adoption of the legislation? Specifically, is it possible to identify core structural elements, e.g., setting, characters, plot, and morals of policy stories in these narratives? 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