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Spring 2006 California Schools cover - Controlling interests

Controlling interests: Politicians vie for power over urban schools

in a reversal of Progressive Era changes a century ago, when schools were taken out from the control of city bosses’ political machines, a handful of urban school districts — along with their considerable budgets and job-dispensing opportunities — have been wrested away from elected boards and turned back over to big-city mayors.

In This Issue

Walk/Don’t Walk: The class of 2006 gets mixed signals on the exit exam

Just a few months before the end of the school year, the jury’s still out on the fate of many members of the class of 2006: the first students required by state law to pass the California High School Exit Exam in order to receive a diploma.

Prepped for Life: Ample resources, great expectations for the university-bound

Part 3: David's story

The third in a four-part series about preparing students for life after high school.

Departments

A conversation with … Superintendents Steven Lund and Maggie Mejia

A rural and an urban superintendent discuss the ways declining enrollment is affecting their districts.

Executive Director’s note

Milestones and memories: CSBA turns 75

Scott P. Plotkin is the executive director of the California School Boards Association.

Short takes

Teamwork makes preschool program a winner

Short takes

This computer program ROCKS

In learning technology skills, middle school students in the Baldwin Park Unified School District are finding a calling.

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