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Download full textBryk, Anthony S.; Rollow, Sharon G. – Issues in Restructuring Schools, 1992
In December 1988 the Illinois State legislature passed the Chicago School Reform Act, which sought to replace traditional bureaucratic control of the schools with a complex system of decision making by local schools. The act promotes three distinct sites of power in school communities: (1) parent-dominated local school councils (LSCs); (2)…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
