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Community Schools for Chicago, An Idea Whose Time Has Come? A Special Report to the Chicago Community Schools Study Commission.

Thomas, Henrietta K. – 1982

The difficulties faced by Chicago's public school system have prompted two state-level investigative bodies to recommend the breaking up of the system into smaller, locally controlled units. Without exhaustively reviewing all of the factors involved in making the transition from a centralized to a decentralized school governance structure, this…

Descriptors: Accountability, Community Control, Decentralization, Educational History

The "Rules" Still Rule: The Failure of School-Based Management/Shared Decision-Making (SBM/SDM) in the New York City Public School System.

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Fager, John C. – 1993

This study finds that the New York City version of school-based decision making, School-Based Management/Shared Decision Making (SBM/SDM), fails to bring school-based management or shared decision making to the schools. This report begins by describing the seriously dysfunctional structure of the New York City public schools and explains the…

Descriptors: Accountability, Boards of Education, Community Control, Decentralization

Do Community-Managed Schools Work? An Evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO Program. Working Paper Series on Impact Evaluation of Education Reforms. Paper No. 8.

Jimenez, Emmanuel; Sawada, Yasuyuki – 1998

This paper measures the effects on student outcomes of decentralizing educational responsibility to communities and schools. In El Salvador, community-managed schools emerged during the 1980s when public schools could not be extended to rural areas because of the country's civil war. In 1991, El Salvador's Ministry of Education decided to draw on…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Community Control, Decentralization