In every state in the South, the percentage of residents with bachelor's degrees or higher who were born outside the state exceed the percentage born in-state, reflecting their dependence on imported talent over building their own talent-development systems. In Virginia, the Southern state with the highest percentage of residents with a B.A. or…

Examines school-based decision making, discussing its promise for urban settings, describing implementation of local control in New York and Detroit, highlighting decentralization effects in four locations, and making recommendations based on similarities and differences between and among sites that may be instructive to other urban settings…