New York City's Education Battles

Autor/in	Meyer, Peter
Titel	New York City's Education Battles
Quelle	In: Education Next, 8 (2008) 2, S.10-20 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education; Public Officials; Urban Schools; Politics of Education; Unions; Educational Administration; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bildungsreform; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung
Abstract	When Bloomberg gave his first State of the City address, in January, 2002, he announced his intention to seek mayoral control of the schools and abolish the infamous New York City Board of Education, which he called "a rinky-dink candy store." He joined a long list of New York mayors, educators, and business leaders who believed that the city's public school system was broken, ravaged by a generation of politics, patronage, and corruption set in motion by the bitter battle between the teachers union and the predominantly African American and Puerto Rican community in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of Brooklyn in 1967 and 1968. In the decades following, mayors had to compete with the board of education and local community boards for power. It was ugly. The seven-member board of education set broad instructional guidelines, hired a chancellor, and determined a capital budget, but the mayor decided the operational budget. Add to that mix 32 different semi-autonomous community school boards that oversaw elementary and middle schools and hired superintendents to run them. With hundreds, sometimes thousands, of jobs at stake, the system was more of a personal patronage mill for local politicians than a place for children to learn. The state legislature, which gave school districts their authority, was reluctant to dismantle an arrangement that greased so many political wheels. Bloomberg called the system "a disgrace." (Contains 2 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10