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A 7 page research paper on privatizing urban schools. The writer argues that the positive aspects of privatization far outweigh the negative and offers the promising case of Hartford, Connecticut as an example. Reasons to change over are analyzed in great detail as are some of the casual factors behind decline in inner-city school systems. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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synonymous to that of the socially despised cities in which they exist. Stereotyped as havens for drugs, crime and related anti-social conditions, many Americans reportedly believe that there is
little hope for our nations urban public schools. As a result, those who are able to do so; pack up their children and flee quietly to the suburbs for
an allegedly "better future" (Mancuso 11). Only recently, have sociopolitical events worth paying to attention to capture the minds of urban educational analysts and pertinent lawmakers. Evidently, there
is a new trend towards optimism for the improvement of urban education; modeled after successive planning in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, privatizing public schools does indeed appear to be
a worthwhile change capable of dramatically improving urban education. Although the concept is not even entirely new, privatizing the public schools of Hartford, Connecticut has
been widely regarded as an insightfully intriguing experiment that has drawn interest from urban school systems all across the country, including several admiring, if cautious expressions of interest from some
of the nations largest cities including New York, whose board of education representatives noted that public schools are not "sacred cows" any longer (Iuvara 31) II. Illustrating the Need
for Change To those who have been fighting the good fight for much more radical school reform in cities such as Hartford, Connecticut, such as
full school choice, supported by tuition tax credits and vouchers, the decision to turn over the management of Hartfords schools to a private contractor is a tepid compromise that should
not require much more thought than changing the manager of the New York Yankees. The Hartford current school system does not work to a degree that is virtually unmatched
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