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 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 255 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.