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Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement: How Mayor-Led Districts Are Improving School and Student Performance
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Wong, Kenneth K.; Shen, Francis X. – Center for American Progress, 2013
Mayoral control and accountability is one of very few major education reforms that aim at governance coherence in this nation's highly fragmented urban school systems. A primary feature of mayoral governance is that it holds the office of the mayor accountable for school performance. As an institutional redesign, mayoral governance integrates…
Descriptors: City Government, Public Officials, Governance, Public Schools
Redesigning Urban Districts in the USA: Mayoral Accountability and the Diverse Provider Model
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Wong, Kenneth K. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
In response to public pressure, urban districts in the USA have initiated reforms that aim at redrawing the boundaries between the school system and other major local institutions. More specifically, this article focuses on two emerging reform strategies. We will examine an emerging model of governance that enables big-city mayors to establish…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Governance, Models, Boards of Education
Mayoral Leadership Matters: Lessons Learned from Mayoral Control of Large Urban School Systems
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Wong, Kenneth K.; Shen, Francis X. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
"Mayoral takeover" has emerged as a major reform option for struggling urban districts since it was launched in Boston in 1992 and Chicago in 1995. This article examines the design, implementation, and the effects of mayoral-led school systems. Our research addresses issues that are critical to systemwide improvement: Are there variation…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, School Districts, Educational Change
The Political Dynamics of Mayoral Engagement in Public Education
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Wong, Kenneth K. – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
Like many urban reform strategies, mayoral leadership in education has both proponents and skeptics. On the one hand, proponents argue that mayor-led initiatives have the potential to transform low-performing schools and to hold schools and students accountable to systemwide standards. On the other hand, skeptics see mayoral involvement as…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, City Government, Public Officials, Government School Relationship
When Mayors Use School Choice as a Reform Strategy
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Wong, Kenneth K.; Shen, Francis X.; Pachucki, Lauren M. – National Research and Development Center on School Choice (NJ1), 2006
All political scientists who study education policy start their analysis with a similar premise: "educational reform does not take place in political vacuum." Studies of the politics of school choice have focused primarily on state-level political dynamics. This line of research makes sense since the charter school market is initially…
Descriptors: Public Officials, City Government, School Choice, Politics of Education
Big City Mayors and School Governance Reform: The Case of School District Takeover
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Wong, Kenneth K.; Shen, Francis X. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2003
As the "Peabody Journal of Education" celebrates its 80th anniversary, educational policymakers and practitioners are keenly aware of the many changes in the way public schools have been governed in large urban districts over the last 80 years. Among the most significant changes is the role of the mayor. Although the 1920s saw partisan politics in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Governance, Urban Schools, Public Schools