Reconnection to Learning, better known as the Bundy Report, was a proposal to decentralize New York City schools in the late 1960s.
In the late 1960s Black Power movement, New York City activists advocated for "community control" of their schools, in which local schools would be governed by boards consisting of parents and community activists rather than by the centralized Department of Education. In particular, the African-American Teachers Association (ATA) advocated for community control of underperforming schools in black neighborhoods, such as Harlem and Ocean Hill-Brownsville (Brooklyn). Its leader, Jitu Weusi, also advocated for rights to create Afrocentric curricula. In response to this activism, the New York State legislature commissioned the Ford Foundation to recommend a partnership between parents and educators. The committee was led by the foundation's president, McGeorge Bundy.[1] Their report, Reconnection to Learning, was better known as the Bundy Report.[2] It proposed school decentralization, which would give local leaders decision-making control over curriculum. An experimental pilot program ran in 1967, backed by Mayor John Lindsay.[1]
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- ^ a b Nuruddin 2014, p. 145.
- ^ Nuruddin 2014, p. 146.
Further reading edit
- Cannato, Vincent J. (2002). "The Bundy Report". The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York. New York: Basic Books. pp. 275–. ISBN 978-0-465-00844-5. OCLC 50635169.
- Epstein, Jason (June 6, 1968). "The Politics of School Decentralization". The New York Review of Books. pp. 26–32. ISSN 0028-7504.
- Nuruddin, Yusuf (2014). "Community Control". In Thompson, Sherwood (ed.). Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 145–148. ISBN 978-1-4422-1606-8.
- Podair, Jerald E. (2008). The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis. Yale University Press. pp. 91–94, 100. ISBN 978-0-300-13070-6.
- Ravitch, Diane (2000). "The Bundy Report". The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 329–. ISBN 978-0-8018-6471-1.
- Rumer, Eugene B.; Trenin, Dmitriĭ; Zhao, Huasheng (2007). Community Power in a Postreform City: Politics in New York City. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-0-7656-2464-2.