Education Week
A quarter-century ago this month, more than 300,000 Chicagoans took part in historic elections to choose who would sit on the city's first local school councils—part of a revolutionary experiment aimed at improving student outcomes by handing significant control of schools over to parents and the community.
Chicago's experiment in local democracy was not completely unique: Kentucky's 1990 education reform law also vested autonomy in local schools, though those councils were dominated by educators, and New York City had also had for some time community school boards. But the Windy City's school governance model was unusually strong because it gave local parent-majority boards the power to hire and fire their school principals...
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