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...cafeteria at Chicago's Morgan Park High School was jammed, and tempers were rising. Only a week earlier, the school's new eleven-member, parent-led governing council had voted not to renew principal Walter Pilditch's contract. The move had sparked violent protests among students, parents and teachers, resulting in seven injuries and ten arrests. Now council president Calvin Pearce was gamely trying to get on with other pressing matters...
...Some parent-power advocates say that allegations of racism are part of a campaign to undermine the city's experiment in school-based management. Others play down the tensions. "There may be some places where issues of race and ethnicity overrule competence, but overall that is a small percentage," says Michael Bakalis, professor of education policy at Loyola University in Chicago and a former state superintendent of education...
...Parent-led councils have also been handicapped by their lack of training, particularly in budgetary matters. The city's board of education has promised help but has been slow to deliver it, giving rise to charges that the central bureaucracy is not committed to change. "The concept is real good, but they have set us up to fail," says Leroy Johnson, whose daughter is a ninth-grader at Morgan Park High School...
...week. Uno, a Hispanic group active in the principals controversy, is expected to pack a meeting of the board of education. Unquestionably, the highly charged atmosphere robs students and teachers of precious classroom time. But, for the moment at least, many Chicagoans take some comfort in the notion that parent-led councils, while imperfect, could not possibly make the city's beleaguered school system any worse. "All we've done now is empower people to make decisions that may or may not be right," says Professor Bakalis. "It's a mistake to believe only people with Ph.D.s know what...
EDUCATION: Can parent power work in the Windy City...