When mayors take charge : school governance in the city / / Joseph P. Viteritti, editor.

"Assesses the results of mayoral control nationwide, detailing the experience in three key cities: Boston and Chicago, the major prototypes for mayoral control, and Detroit, where mayoral control was not successful. Also provides the first in-depth examination of New York City, where the law in...

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Year of Publication:2009
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Physical Description:xiv, 255 p. :; ill.
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245 0 0 |a When mayors take charge  |h [electronic resource] :  |b school governance in the city /  |c Joseph P. Viteritti, editor. 
260 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b Brookings Institution Press,  |c c2009. 
300 |a xiv, 255 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Why governance matters / Joseph P. Viteritti -- General overviews -- Mayoral control : what we can and cannot learn from other cities / Jeffrey R. Henig -- Mayoral control of schools : politics, trade-offs, and outcomes / Michael W. Kirst -- Does mayoral control improve performance in urban districts? / Kenneth K. Wong -- City case studies -- Governing the Boston public schools : lessons in mayoral control / John Portz and Robert Schwartz -- Updating tradition : the institutional underpinnings of modern mayoral control in Chicago's public schools / Dorothy Shipps -- Who's afraid of a mayoral takeover of Detroit public schools? / Wilbur C. Rich -- The New York experience -- A history of public school governance in New York City / Diane Ravitch -- Parent power and mayoral control : parent and community involvement in New York City schools / Clara Hemphill -- New York : past, present, future / Joseph P. Viteritti. 
520 |a "Assesses the results of mayoral control nationwide, detailing the experience in three key cities: Boston and Chicago, the major prototypes for mayoral control, and Detroit, where mayoral control was not successful. Also provides the first in-depth examination of New York City, where the law installing mayoral control sunsets in 2009"--Provided by publisher. 
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