Name: Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education (en Inglés)
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Author: Chambers, Stefanie
ISBN: 9781592134694

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Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Stefanie Chambers

Editorial

Temple University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.9 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.28 kg.

ISBN

1592134696

ISBN13

9781592134694

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Sociedad y cultura: general
Estrategias y políticas educativas
Políticas del gobierno central
Gobiernos y administraciones estatales, regionales y de otros ámbitos locales

Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education (en Inglés)

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This book examines the national trend toward mayoral control of big-city school districts through comparative case studies of Chicago and Cleveland - two school districts that adopted mayoral control during the 1990s. Chambers takes up the question of whether granting control to mayors in major cities will indeed fix public school systems. She finds that although both cities have experienced noteworthy improvements in student performance since mayoral control, the increased centralization of decision-making has reduced minority participation in democratic politics. Chambers argues that this conundrum of improved performance at the cost of decreased minority participation could undermine the very democratic and civic values that schools try to teach. In a concluding chapter, she offers several suggestions for better incorporating minority participation educational decisions, even while centralizing more power in mayors' offices.