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Mayoral Control of the New York City Schools

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. David Rogers
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  • Assesses the first three years of Mayor Bloomberg’s radical overhaul of the NYC schools
  • The analysis of this governance asks the question: To what extent can the business management paradigm be transferred to search a public section agency?

Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. WHY PAST REFORMS FAILED

    • David Rogers
    Pages 1-12

  3. FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING MAYORAL CONTROL

    • David Rogers
    Pages 13-20

  4. BLOOMBERG ASSUMES MAYORAL CONTROL

    • David Rogers
    Pages 21-26

  5. VISION FOR THE TRANSFORMATION

    • David Rogers
    Pages 27-39

  6. STRATEGY

    • David Rogers
    Pages 41-62

  7. IMPLEMENTATION

    • David Rogers
    Pages 63-78

  8. CRITICAL ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE

    • David Rogers
    Pages 79-104

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 105-117
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This is a book about the ambitious reform strategy known as mayoral control ini- ated to transform the dysfunctional system of urban education in the United States. I use the term dysfunctional to refer to the inability of urban school districts over the past 50 years to reduce the learning gap between poor students and their middle class peers, despite a host of reform efforts including desegregation, compensatory programs, and decentralization. Since the mid-1990s, the idea of mayoral control has generated considerable interest. Several large cities have introduced it such as Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, and Washington (Henig and Rich 2004; Wong et al. 2007). Although the latter have completed a quantitative study of mayoral control’s impact on student performance in over 100 cities, a case study of the New York experience nevertheless illuminates the capacity of this tool for transforming urban education. Because of the size of the NYC system – roughly 1.2 million students – and its economic, social, and ethnic diversity, it faces the myriad problems of urban edu- tion writ large that impede efforts to implement change in these schools.

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