Inside “The Founders”: Joel Klein (excerpt)
In 2002, the New York State Legislature gave the mayor’s office control of New York City’s public schools.
school administration
Mayor Bloomberg Remarks on Education Reform (excerpt)
At the 2012 United States Conference of Mayors, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reflected on the first ten years of mayoral control in New York City’s schools.
Focus on Learning, excerpt
Please note: This is work in progress. Please keep that in mind as you read.
Where is District 5?
Under decentralized school governance, each community school district had its own school board, and members of that board were elected by parents and voters who lived within the community school district’s boundaries.
Mark Twain on the 51st State, excerpt 3
What do schools try to teach their students?
On the Way to School - Community Control, Some Observations, excerpt
Preston Wilcox was a human rights activist and professor at Columbia University who supported Black studies on college campuses and community control for K-12 schools.
Community Control is Not Decentralization
New York State’s 1969 decentralization law drew strong opposition from many Black and Puerto Rican New Yorkers who had been advocating for community control.
Community Control March
During the 1968 teacher strike, community control advocates continued to participate in leading local school districts and arguing for self-determination in education.
A Proposal for an Independent Board of Education in Harlem
Over 1 million new Black Southern migrants and Puerto Rican immigrants had settled in New York City by the 1950s.
William Maxwell
Who should have made decisions about what happened to the hundreds of thousands of children in New York City’s schools?