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This book offers important insights into the complex nature of educational accountability and its role in supporting school improvement.This volume is important reading for scholars and researchers in Federalism, Education Policy and Public Administration. It will also benefit policymakers, think tanks, and community organizations.

The spectre of a plant closing can cast a deep shadow over a city. During the last fifteen years plant closings have eliminated about 15 million factory jobs and, as a result, brought economic devastation to numerous plant-dependent cities.

Other writers have chronicled the often catastrophic effects of these shutdowns on urban workers and their communities. John Portz is the first to provide an in-depth look at what local governments have done--and can do--to cope with these crises.

Portz combines a rich synthesis of the literature on urban politics and political economy with a close...

This book offers important insights into the complex nature of educational accountability and its role in supporting school improvement.This volume is important reading for scholars and researchers in Federalism, Education Policy and Public Administration. It will also benefit policymakers, think tanks, and community organizations.

Educational reform is one of the most critical issues facing our cities, but some cities are better at it than others. To explain why, this book relates education to politics, showing how the "whole village" can be mobilized to better educate tomorrow's citizens.

City Schools and City Politics is based on an eleven-city NSF study of civic capacity and urban education. As participants in that study, the authors conducted research in three rustbelt cities that have lost much of their tax base and have legacies of machine politics. They analyzed the ways in which government, business,...