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Managing for Results in America's Great City Schools: A Report of the Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Project
This report is the first-of-its-kind benchmarking effort to improve operational performance in big-city schools. The multi-year study presents 50 indicators to measure urban school performance on a range of operational and business functions.
Publication date: April 2007
132 pages, $15 to order
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The Mayor's Plan for Achieving Success in the DCPS: Is the Implementation Likely to Match the Vision?
The Council of the Great City Schools examines the provisions in D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's achievement plan for the District of Columbia Public Schools to see whether the plan's implementation would lead to achieving the vision it sets forth and whether the plan shows internal consistency.
Publication date: March 2007
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Analysis of Mayor Adrian Fenty’s Plan for the District of Columbia Public Schools
The Council of the Great City Schools summarizes Mayor Fenty’s proposed legislation to take over the District of Columbia Public Schools, compares it to actions
taken or proposed by the school board, and analyzes the potential of the mayor’s plan to fix underlying school system problems .
Publication date: February 2007
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Review of Human Resource Operations in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
The report, from the Council's "Cities Building Cities" program, examines Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools human resources division and provides several recommendations for improvement.
Publication date: December 2006
52 pages
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Urban Indicator: Urban School Superintendents: Characteristics, Tenure, and Salary, Fifth Survey and Report
This fifth survey of urban superintendents’ characteristics, tenure, and salary, reports trends since 1997. The results show that urban superintendents have become more diverse, and that average tenure and salary among urban superintendents have increased over the past several years.
Publication date: June 2006
$10.00
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Review of the Organizational Structure & Operations of the Los Angeles School District
This report recommends reforms to help the Los Angeles School District improve its organizational and administrative structure, and increase the effectiveness of its financial operations, business services and human resources. The report is from the Council of the Great City Schools’ “Cities Building Cities” program.
Publication date: January 2006
330 pages
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Urban School Board Survey
This survey is the Council’s first survey on the characteristics of school boards and board members in the nation’s urban schools. Respondents were asked to provide information on a range of topics including board governance; structure; demographics of board members, including race/ethnicity, age, gender, educational background and profession.
Publication date: October 2005
16 pages
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Superintendent Search and Selection Process for Great City School Boards, A Primer
The most important responsibility of any Board of Education is the selection of its Superintendent of Schools. The Council produced this report to assist its member school boards in beginning the search for a new superintendent.
Publication date: 2005
24 pages
$10.00
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Urban School Superintendents: Characteristics, Tenure and Salary
The Council’s fourth biennial report of its member cities to determine the characteristics of superintendents in America’s urban schools.
Publication date: October 2003
6 pages
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The Urban Superintendent: Creating Great Schools While Surviving on the Job, Report of a Colloquium for Former Urban Superintendents
This report offers advice on how superintendents can be successful in leading their school districts and helping students learn. The report provides insight from several former superintendents who were eager to share the lessons of their tenures
Publication date: February 2003
40 pages
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Benchmarking Best Practices in Accountability Systems
This report presents the results of a study by the Council of the Great City Schools and the American Productivity & Quality Center to identify, benchmark and document best practices in accountability systems.
Publication date: June 2000
13 pages
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Reforming the Buffalo Public Schools: Final Report of the Buffalo Public Schools Management Assistance Project
This report, from the Council’s “Cities Building Cities” program, recommends 233 reforms to help the Buffalo school system improve. Teams from 17 cities were assembled in Buffalo to examine the district’s organization and operations in instruction and curriculum.,
Publication date: Fall 2000
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Squashing the Millennium Bug: A Y2K Compliance Guide for K-12 Education
The Council of the Great City Schools developed this guide, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, to assist the nation's elementary/secondary schools and school districts address their Year 2000 (Y2K) problem.
Publication date: January 1999
75 pages
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Rebuilding the D.C. Public Schools, Final Report of the D.C. Public Schools External Transition Project
The first-ever report from the Council of the Great City Schools “Cities Building Cities” program, this document offers recommendations to improve key operations in the District of Columbia Public Schools in areas such as special education, transportation and budget.
Publication date: December 1998
72 pages
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