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New York City School Districts
1969-2003
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The 1969 school decentralization lawwas designed to give community controlto schools after black and Hispanicparents protested that the centralizedbureaucracy was unresponsive to them.
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New York City School Regions
2003-2007
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Acknowledging that decentralizationhad failed to improve schools for poor blacks and Hispanics, the statelegislature disbanded community schoolboards and gave Mayor Mike Bloombergcontrol of the schools.Schools Chancellor Joel Klein combined
the old schools districts into 10 regionsto exert more control.
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