School decentralization refers to the process of giving schools more power and control over their own decision-making. It means transferring authority and responsibility from a central education authority or government to individual schools.
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This fear - mongering against a return to the old system, so -
called school decentralization or community control, employs caricature rather than truth
School decentralization in New York City in the 1960's was supposed to promote involvement by establishing parent associations in schools and charging principals with the responsibility of communicating with them.
«The opportunity to use random assignment - the lotteries - to study and compare two important models
for school decentralization means that the students we compared were very similar in terms of family background, motivation, and anything else you might think of except for the likelihood of attending a charter or pilot school.»
That list was developed from research
about school decentralization and autonomy by the Fordham Foundation, William Ouchi of UCLA, and RAND Corporation.