The Failure of Reform: Community Control and the Philadelphia Public Schools.

Foley, Fred J.

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Publication Date: 1976

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The Failure of Reform: Community Control and the Philadelphia Public Schools

Foley, Fred J.

Urban Education, 10, 4, 389-414, Jan 76

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)

Descriptors: Accountability, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decentralization, Experimental Programs, Failure, Public Schools, School Community Relationship, School District Autonomy

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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

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