Reforming San Diego City Schools: 1998-2002 Case Solution
During the time period of 4 years, he and his chancellor of education, Anthony Alvarado, performed an aggressive reform attempt: reorganizing the central office, redesigning the educational program in reading and mathematics, and allocating unbelievable resources to teachers' and administrators' professional development. The SDCS leaders confronted fiscal challenges and considerable political: the school board was split, the teachers' union fought the district leadership, and the state was entering the most important fiscal disaster in recent memory.
However, in elementary schools, the students’ scores improved substantially from 1998 to 2002, modestly in middle schools, and almost not at all in high schools. The reform attempts seemed to be working in the smaller elementary schools but not the bigger, more organizationally complex secondary schools. The leaders confronted a choice: to continue the reform attempts, with the understanding the reforms weren't yet completely executed and results so far were combined, or change the reform strategy (and, if so, to discover in what ways).
This is just an excerpt. This case is about ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PUBLICATION DATE: January 28, 2004
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