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ERIC Number: EJ1033078
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 9
Abstractor: ERIC
Reference Count: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1539-9664
Mayoral Control in the Windy City
Russo, Alexander
Education Next, v14 n2 p36-44 Spr 2014
When former U.S. congressman and Obama administration chief of staff Rahm Emanuel marched triumphantly into the Chicago mayor's office in 2011, he promised to revamp Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in ways that had barely been contemplated in 16 years of mayoral control over the city's sprawling public-school system. This article discusses and evaluates what Rahm Emanual has done to improve the Chicago Public School System.
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Resources, Educational Finance, City Government, Change Strategies, Achievement Gains, Achievement Gap, Teacher Strikes, Governance, Workers Compensation, Teacher Employment Benefits, School Closing, Declining Enrollment, Expenditures, Partnerships in Education, Fiscal Capacity, Charter Schools, School Choice, School Restructuring, Politics of Education, Finance Reform
Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010. Tel: 800-935-2882; Fax: 650-723-8626; e-mail: educationnext@hoover.stanford.edu; Web site: http://educationnext.org/journal/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Illinois