Discusses New York City's recent experiences with political decentralization of schools, and describes the goals of decentralization and community schools. (LR)

Report of research dealing with the relationship between decentralization in New York City and curriculum development, change, and evaluation in the community school districts of the public school system. (EH)

This paper reports the results of a statistical study of two community school districts within one urban school system. The purposes of the study were to determine (1) whether parents in a decentralized district are more satisfied with their schools than are parents in a regular, centralized district, and (2) whether the type of school district is…

The Fuentes case demonstrated how the community's rights could be subverted by a purposeful faction; the Canarsie case showed how unchecked local control could damage children's rights. Successful decentralization requires the central board to assert its authority to prevent the arbitrary exercise of local power. (EH)

Reprint from COUNCIL FOR BASIC EDUCATION BULLETIN," December 1968

The former superintendent of District 1 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan defends community control and his actions. (IRT)

The principles of Gandhi are applied to the rural crisis in America with special attention to rural Iowa. Approaches to rural reconstruction and development are proposed which emphasize human-scale development, community-owned enterprises, local community development foundations, maximum feasible participation, broad-based land ownership, and…

"Decentralization efforts by the Great Cities tend to follow three basic patterns; (a) advisory councils... (b) citizen control... (c) district boards of education... (Author)

First in a two-part series on how teachers are affected by the New York State Decentralization Law. (CB)

The authors present two views on the issue of local control of educational television programing.

Community control under a metropolitan structure will encourage suburban citizens who have fled the cities to reexamine the urban crisis and, one hopes, to realize that the future of urban areas must be the concern of all citizens, not only those who remain in central cities. (Author)

Basic cause of the differences in range of choice between white and black decentralization plans is the disparity between black registered electoral figures and the number of black students in the high school system. Geographic polarization of Detroit into a black inner city and surrounding white suburbs reinforces this effect. (RJ)