If
you haven't seen it already, a new book has been published by the Brookings
Institution called When Mayors
Take Charge: School Governance in the City. This
book, edited by Joseph P. Viteritti who was also the Executive Director of the
Public Advocate’s Commission on School Governance, "brings together
leading experts on mayoral control to analyze the factors and people driving this
trend as well as its achievements and shortcomings, possible ways to improve
its design and implementation and its prospects for the future." The
papers presented in When Mayors Take Charge were commissioned by the Public
Advocate’s School Governance Commission.
Contributors
include: Clara Hemphill, New School University; Jeffrey R. Henig, Columbia
University; Michael Kirst, Stanford University; John Portz, Northeastern
University; Diane Ravitch, New York University; Wilbur C. Rich, Wellesley
College; Robert Schwartz, Harvard University; Dorothy Shipps, Baruch College; and
Kenneth K. Wong, Brown University.
It
also includes the first in-depth examination of mayoral control in New York City. The state law
giving the mayor control of the schools sunsets in 2009. Read an excerpt of the
opening letter by Public Advocate Gotbaum below:
"My professional interest in education policy began when I served as an assistant to Mayor John Lindsay. Earlier, upon graduating from college, I taught school in Brazil and subsequently received a graduate degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. Since becoming public advocate in 2002, I have focused on the issue of education, and my office has prepared many reports on the school system and its policies. Often these reports have been critical."
Read the Full Text of the Letter from Public Advocate Gotbaum.
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