Many argue that the resistance from local public
school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.
Not exact matches
Respect (especially from
school administrators), pay raises, and smaller class sizes also made an impressive
showing, and it seems eliminating excessive
bureaucracy and paperwork could make a dent in exhaustion, too.
Indeed, despite a drastic restructuring of the
school bureaucracy, implemented by Mayor Michael Bloomberg beginning in 2002 (see Forum), and despite the heavy infusions of cash
shown described in Figure 1, Gotham's academic outcomes remain poor.
The history books will
show 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.
Gates's effort at Turning Around Failing
Schools was not only widely panned by education pundits, but also
shown to be an utter failure by the federal education
bureaucracy through which it was supported.