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Race and Support for State Takeovers of Local School Districts
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Burns, Peter – Urban Education, 2010
State takeovers of local school districts represent one of the most recent kinds of education reform. Americans favor both local control over education and state takeovers of failing schools. African American leaders tend to oppose takeovers, but survey data suggest that African American citizens support greater state influence over local…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Districts, Educational Change, African American Attitudes