Community Control Model Of Education

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Community control schools are a viable option for solving poverty and related educational problems for low-income students in New York City. Community control schools bring fragmented services such as health clinics, food assistance, and afterschool programs onto schools campuses and integrate them into the educational strategy. When such services are integrated into the educational strategies, students from low-income communities can access schools easily. Community control schools will help solve the everyday challenges that students from low-income communities face. Such challenges include hunger, homelessness and health issues. When these services are provided in schools, teachers will only focus on teaching. Community control model will …show more content…

Thus, when community control schools are employed in New York, the superintendents will be able to design strategies, and that is unique to low-income students and families. Such strategies will involve parents and leaders in that area. The New York City is rich in skills and expertise in community schools and also funders ready to fund innovative work. Superintendents, principals, and community administrators govern how to locate decentralized funds. Thus, funds in New York should be invested in the community schools agenda. By allocating funds to community schools, the intricate needs of low-income students such as health services, afterschool programs, and food among other services will assist students who historically perform poorly and come from low-income …show more content…

Lewis pioneered in the active involvement of parents in school reforms. Michael Bloomberg won the mayoral control of the schools and his following abandoning of the system to chancellor Klein who recentralized curricular and administrative functions, which destroyed all the agreements of community input in school reforms offering charter support (Lewis, 2015). Such move was disastrous as community control of school was destroyed, meaning that the low-income communities would not be heard. Instead, Klein should have allowed community input in charter schools. Parental and community involvement in school reforms is vital as the local community will be able to articulate their need which will be envisaged and articulated later in the

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