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With the aim of improving urban school performance and student outcomes, three approaches to the reform of urban school governance are presented and the potential advantages and disadvantages of each are discussed.

Table of Contents

Introduction Urban Education Reform: Competing Approaches by William Lowe Boyd and James G. Cibulka Systems Reforms of Urban School Systems Accountability at the Improv: Brief Sketches of School Reform in Los Angeles by Charles Taylor Kerchner and David Menefee-Libey Philadelphia's Children Achieving Initiative: The Promise and Challenge of Systemic Reform in an Urban School District by Jolley Bruce Christman, et al. Balancing Autonomy and Control in the New York City Public Schools: Using the Double ACE Model by Bruce D. Cooper and David C. Bloomfield Increasing Mayoral Influence Over Urban Schools Mayoral Takeover: The Different Directions Taken in Different Cities by Michael W. Kirst and Katrina E. Bulkley From Court Street to City Hall: Governance Change in the Boston Public Schools by Gary Yee Regime Change: Mayoral Takeover of the Chicago Public Schools by Dorothy Shipps Implementation of an Accountability Agenda in High Schools: Integrated Governance in the Chicago Public Schools by Kenneth K. Wong, et al. External Intervention to Improve Urban School Systems State and Federal Intervention to Improve Baltimore and Washington, D.C.,'s Public Schools by James G. Cibulka Conclusion Urban Education Reform Strategies: Comparative Analysis and Conclusions by James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Boyd References Index

About the Author

JAMES G. CIBULKA is Dean, College of Education, University of Kentucky. His research focuses on educational policy and politics, including urban education.

WILLIAM LOWE BOYD is Batschelet Chair Professor of Educational Administration and Professor-in-Charge of Graduate Programs in Educational Administration at Penn State University.