A Forced March for Failing Schools: Lessons from the New York City Chancellor's District

Creator

Deinya Phenix
Dorothy Siegel
Ariel Zaltsman
Norm Fruchter

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

September 2005

Abstract

In the mid-nineties, the New York City Schools Chancellor created a citywide improvement zone to take over a significant proportion of the city’s lowest performing schools whose local community school districts had failed to improve them. This “Chancellor’s District” defined centralized management, rather than local control, as the critical variable necessary to initiate, enforce and ensure the implementation of school improvement. This large-scale intervention involved both a governance change and a set of capacity-building interventions presumably unavailable under local sub-district control. Our study retrospectively examined the origins, structure and components of the Chancellor’s District, and analyzed the characteristics and outcomes of the elementary schools mandated to receive these interventions. ...

Keywords

Educational change, Accountability, Low-performing schools

Extent

27

Geographic Location

New York (N.Y.)

Volume

13

Issue

40

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Phenix, D., Siegel, D., Zaltsman, A., & Fruchter, N. (2005). A forced march for failing schools: Lessons from the New York City Chancellor’s District. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 13(40). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n40.

Identifier

E11-00462

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Phenix, Deinya; Siegel, Dorothy; Zaltsman, Ariel; and Fruchter, Norm, "A Forced March for Failing Schools: Lessons from the New York City Chancellor's District" (2005). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 176.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/176