THE EDUCATION MAYOR
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THE EDUCATION MAYOR Kenneth K. Wong, Francis X. Shen, Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Stacey Rutledge
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In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed, a new movement was already under way by mayors to take control of city schools from school boards and integrate the management of public education with the overall governing of the city. THE EDUCATION MAYOR is a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states.
The authors seek to answer four central questions:
• What does school governance look like under mayoral leadership?
• How does mayoral control affect school and student performance?
• What are the key factors for success or failure of integrated governance?
• How does mayoral control effect practical changes in schools and classrooms?
The results of their examination indicate that, although mayoral control of schools may not be appropriate for every district, it can successfully emphasize accountability across the education system, providing more leverage for each school district to strengthen its educational infrastructure and improve student performance. Based on extensive quantitative data as well as case studies, this analytical study provides a balanced look at America's education reform.
As the first multidistrict empirical examination and most comprehensive overall evaluation of mayoral school reform, THE EDUCATION MAYOR is a must-read for academics, policymakers, educational administrators, and civic and political leaders concerned about public education.
Kenneth K. Wong is Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor in Education Policy and director of the Urban Education Policy Program at Brown University. He is the author of Funding Public Schools: Politics and Policy and coauthor of Successful Schools and Educational Accountability.
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Due to space restrictions in the published book, and because most readers aren't so interested in long tables, we were not able to include the data below in the hard copy of the book. For those interested, however, we make available .pdf versions of a number of additional tables of data. Please see our discussion in the book about these various additional pieces of data:
- Additional Tables for Chapters 3 & 4
(Table A3.1. Selected Characteristics of School Districts in Sample; Table A3.2. Distribution of Sample Districts, by State; Table A3.3. Achievement Measures for Sample Districts; Table A3.4. Legal Statutes Authorizing Mayoral Appointed School Boards; Table A3.5. Data used to compute average reading and math scores, by year and grade; Table A3.6. Summary of Elementary Reading Achievement in Sample Districts, 1999-2003; Table A3.7. Summary of Elementary Math Achievement in Sample Districts, 1999-2003)
- Additional Tables for Chapter 5
(Table A5.1. Student demographics of Bottom 10th and 25th percentile schools in Mayoral Control Districts; Table A5.2. Tracking the lowest 10th Percentile of Middle Schools, Selected Districts, 1999-2003; Table A5.3. Tracking the lowest 25th Percentile of Middle Schools, Selected Districts, 1999-2003; Table A5.4. Inequality Ratios of Mayoral Control Districts (75th Pctile / 25th Pctile), Selected Middle Grades, 1999-2003)
- Additional Tables for Chapter 7
(Table A7.1. Summary of Financial and Staffing Outcome Variables, 2003 values; Table A7.2. Summary of Significant Relationships between Mayoral Control Measures and Expenditure Per-Pupil Fiscal Outcomes, Baseline and 5-year Lag Model Results Reported; Table A7.3. Summary of Significant Relationships between Mayoral Control Measures and Allocation Fiscal Outcomes, Baseline and 5-year Lag Model Results Reported; Table A7.4. Summary of Significant Relationships between Mayoral Control Measures and Staffing Outcomes, Baseline and 5-year Lag Model Results Reported)
- Additional Tables for Chapter 8
(Table A8.1. Analysis of Education Content on 2005 City Websites; Table A8.2. Analysis of Education Content of 2005 State of the City Speeches in Sample Districts)