Mayoral Control of the New York City Schools

• Main Author: Rogers, David. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Sociology of Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71143-0

The New York City public school system has fundamentally changed its governance four times during the past forty years. It moved in 1970 from a highly centralized bureaucracy to a more community-based decentralized system, both of which were independent of the mayor. In 2002 under mayoral control, t...

Table of Contents:

• Why Past Reforms Have Not Worked
• Historical Context 1: Cycles of Centralization and Decentralization
• Historical Context 2: Mayoral Governance as an Emerging National Movement
• Analytical Context: A Framework for Assessing Mayoral Governance in New York
• Bloomberg's Emerging Engagement in the New Your City Schools
• Style and Directions of the Transformation
• Structural Components
• Implementation Problems
• Lessons for Mayoral Governance: Critical Issues for the Future.