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Direct linkElwick, Alex – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
In 2002 Michael Bloomberg took office as Mayor of New York City and, over the next 12 years of his administration, oversaw a series of sweeping reforms in order to "fix" the broken education system which he believed he had inherited. This paper details the key policy reforms in New York City's public school system during this period,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Schools, Educational Policy, Change Strategies
Download full textLake, Robin; Posamentier, Jordan; Denice, Patrick; Hill, Paul – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2016
The portfolio strategy is a change strategy for public education in a district or metropolitan area. It is founded on the idea of re-missioning government agencies from rigid bureaucratic entities that mostly manage compliance requirements and interest group politics to a new role: overseeing performance and a diverse range of school choices…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Implementation, Portfolios (Background Materials), Change Strategies
Peer reviewedMorison, Sidney H. – National Elementary Principal, 1980
New York City's community school boards are too weak and buffeted by too many special interest groups to effectively represent parent interests or serve as successful agents in the decentralization process, though at least one board and the parents it represents show that stronger action is possible. (Author/PGD)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Decentralization, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBresnick, David – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1974
Decentralization and recentralization are continuing phenomena in large bureaucracies, each cyclically emerging to prominence. The current decentralization strategy for large city school systems can only be successful in conjunction with continuing (though altered) centralized functions. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Decentralization
Salz, Arthur E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Negotiation Agreements, School District Autonomy
Salz, Arthur E. – Urban Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Decentralization, Decision Making
Shanker, Albert – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Black Education, Decentralization, Educational Experiments
Gartner, Alan; And Others – 1979
Interview data were obtained from teachers, principals, and parents of children with special needs, as well as from supervisors and executive officers of parent advocacy and/or provider groups, to study the Bronx, New York, Special Education Regional Office (BRO). Three program areas were investigated: management, communications and liaison, and…
Descriptors: Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children
Gartner, Alan; And Others – 1979
The report documents the findings of a pilot project in which teachers, principals, parents of special needs children, supervisors, and executive officers of parent advocacy and/or provider groups were interviewed to investigate the organizational effectiveness of the Bronx (New York) Special Education Regional Office and to determine its…
Descriptors: Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children
Usdan, Michael D. – Urban Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Black Community, Board of Education Role, Citizen Participation, Community Action
Domanico, Raymond J. – 1990
This report presents the conceptual framework for a public school choice plan for New York City and discusses why school choice represents the best hope for meaningful reform. Public school choice is defined as giving school professionals the freedom to design innovative and distinctive school programs; and giving parents the right to choose, in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Parent Participation
Fantini, Mario; Gittell, Marilyn – Phi Delta Kappan, 1969
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Decentralization, Educational Experiments, Educational Facilities Improvement
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Div. of Public Affairs. – 1978
This is the text of the law governing the New York City Community School District System. The law defines the relationship of the Board of Education of the City with the Community School Districts and the means by which the Community Districts are to be governed. The composition of the District School Boards and the election procedure for them are…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Schools, School Administration, School Community Relationship
Peer reviewedSakolsky, R. – Education and Urban Society, 1973
Deals with the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school decentralization controversy, with the safety-valve institution in question being the local school board created to govern the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district, using Lewis Coser's theory of the safety-valve institution as an analytical tool. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Community, Community Attitudes, Conflict Resolution, Educational Change
Oberer, Walter E. – 1968
Because of the advent of collective negotiations, public education will never again be completely in control of local school boards. Collective negotiations will probably improve the quality of education to the extent that quality (higher salaries, smaller classes, better working conditions, etc.) coincides with the self-interest of teachers. The…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Decentralization, Educational Quality
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