Bundy Report Explained
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. Their report, Reconnection to Learning, was better known as the Bundy Report. 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.
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- Book: Cannato . Vincent J. . The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York . 2002 . 978-0-465-00844-5 . Basic Books . New York . mdy-all . The Bundy Report . 275– . 50635169 . https://books.google.com/books?id=Upv5ezVPBOMC&pg=PA275.
- News: Epstein . Jason . Jason Epstein . The Politics of School Decentralization . . 1968-06-06 . 26–32 . subscription . 0028-7504 . mdy-all .
- Book: Nuruddin, Yusuf . Thompson. Sherwood. Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. 2014. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4422-1606-8. 145–148. Community Control .
- Book: Jerald Podair. Podair . Jerald E. . The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis . 2008 . 978-0-300-13070-6 . Yale University Press . mdy-all . 91–94, 100 .
- Book: Ravitch . Diane . Diane Ravitch . The Bundy Report . 329– . The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools . 2000 . 978-0-8018-6471-1 . Johns Hopkins University Press . Baltimore . mdy-all . https://books.google.com/books?id=qjX0W6NTRoAC&pg=PA329 .
- Book: Rumer. Eugene B.. Trenin. Dmitriĭ. Zhao. Huasheng. Community Power in a Postreform City: Politics in New York City. 2007. M.E. Sharpe. 978-0-7656-2464-2. 101–.
