Fifty years ago, Michigan began an experiment by legislatively creating a new layer of public school bureaucracy: intermediate school districts. (michigancapitolconfidential.com)
Charter proponents cite it as an example of how freedom of traditional public school bureaucracy can produce impressive results. (hechingerreport.org)
that New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg seized control of the city's sprawling public school bureaucracy and its 1.1 million students on July 1, 2002. (educationnext.org)