Report of research dealing with the relationship between decentralization in New York City and curriculum development, change, and evaluation in the community school districts of the public school system. (EH)

The data for the years 1969-1972 clearly support the ethnic succession-decentralization hypothesis. The new ethnic groups in New York City, the blacks, and Hispanics are achieving greater success in penetrating the school bureaucracy in the decentralized than in the centralized districts. (Author)

Argues that the principal cause of failure has been due to a lack of sufficient power to overcome the opposition of groups who depended upon and actively defended the historically centralized and professionally dominated system. (Author/AM)

Noting that a historical example of local control is valuable in assessing the results of greater community involvement in school affairs, this article focuses on the development of the decentralized Pittsburgh school system, which in the early 1900's was composed of 38 sub-district boards, each possessing authority to levy taxes and to appoint…

In order to determine why community control groups and low income people have been excluded from power, this study describes and analyzes in detail the politics of education in a typical New York City public school district. (Author/JLF)