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Case | HBS Case Collection | December 2013 (Revised December 2014)

Reform in the Chicago Public Schools

by Matthew Weinzierl and Katrina Flanagan

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In 2012, the Chicago Teachers' Union went on strike over proposed reforms by the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel. At the heart of the reforms, and the strike, was frustration over many decades of underperformance in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and a surge of controversial, largely market-based, experimentation in public education in many U.S. cities.

Keywords: public education; public goods; Samuelson rule; Externalities and Pigouvian corrections; Tiebout sorting and efficiency; Education; Labor Unions; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; Chicago;

Language: English Format: Print 34 pages EducatorsPurchase

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Weinzierl, Matthew, and Katrina Flanagan. "Reform in the Chicago Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 714-027, December 2013. (Revised December 2014.)

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    Weinzierl, Matthew, and Katrina Flanagan. "Reform in the Chicago Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 714-027, December 2013. (Revised December 2014.)  View Details
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Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration
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