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"Good Politics Is Good Government": The Troubling History of Mayoral Control of the Public Schools in Twentieth-Century Chicago
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Carl, Jim – American Journal of Education, 2009
This article looks at urban education through the vantage point of Chicago's mayors. It begins with Carter H. Harrison II (who served from 1897 to 1905 and again from 1911 to 1915) and ends with Richard M. Daley (1989 to the present), with most of the focus on four long-serving mayors: William Hale Thompson (1915-23 and 1927-31), Edward Kelly…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Political Power, Urban Education