School district decentralization typically shifts authority and resources from central office administrators at the district level to leaders at the school level. Although decentralization reforms have been prevalent in urban educational contexts for decades, they often yield poor results for low-income, minoritized communities. In this article,…

Traditional separation of politics and education creates two distinct bodies of literature neither of which is adequate for an understanding of the dilemmas school administrators face. Political realities should be recognized and a school commissioner should be responsible to the mayor. (Author/LHW)

Analyzes racial and public policy implications of establishing, within a new desegregated metropolitan school district, a uniform salary schedule for teachers who formerly worked for eleven independent school districts located in the same county. (Author/GC)