This case was developed for use with future school and district leaders in an educational setting. There are several topics of discussion that can be developed, including but not limited to decentralization as a large-scale reform, policy implementation, the superintendency, and urban schools. The setting is a fictional southwestern urban school district. Data are presented about student achievement and funding equity/inequity. Students will discuss potential next steps for the main player in the story: a relatively new superintendent whose school board has mixed feelings about the district's decentralized model, implemented in 2007.