Sentences with phrase «came under mayoral control»

In 2007, when Kaya Henderson, current chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, was deputy chancellor, the struggling school system came under mayoral control.

In August 2002, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg selected former corporate executive and Justice Department official Joel I. Klein to become chancellor of the nation's largest school system — a system that had just come under mayoral control.

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Through secondary analysis, CPE found that mayoral takeovers are «a rare, and largely urban phenomenon,» and out of more than 13,000 school districts in the U.S., only about 20 have come under formal mayoral control in the last 20 years.