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Wirt, Frederick M. – 1991
Although the current educational restructuring movement in the United States may be designed to improve schooling, it is also a political reform designed to shift the locus of authority over allocation of this service. This political theme is developed in the context of the historical shift from decentralized to centralized delivery of urban…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
