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ix Tables 1.1 A Typology of the Politics of Urban School Reform 13 1.2 Institutional Characteristics of School Governance Models 16 2.1 Characteristics of School Districts with Mayor-Led Integrated 30 Governance 3.1 Identifying Districts for Analysis 55 3.2 Measurement of Contributing Factors to Student Achievement 67 in Big-City School Districts 4.1 Summary of Control Variables Used in Achievement 81 Regressions 4.2 Results from Linear Regression Models for Standardized 84 Elementary Reading Achievement, 1999–2003 4.3 Results from Linear Regression Models for Standardized 86 Elementary Mathematics Achievement, 1999–2003 4.4 Z-Scores in 1999 for Mayor-Controlled Districts 88 4.5 Results from Linear Regression Models for Standardized 90 High School Reading Achievement, 1999–2003 4.6 Results from Linear Regression Models for Standardized 92 High School Mathematics Achievement, 1999–2003 5.1 Tracking the Lowest 10th Percentile of Elementary Schools, 102 Selected Districts, 1999–2003 5.2 Tracking the Lowest 25th Percentile of Elementary Schools, 104 Selected Districts, 1999–2003 5.3 Inequality Ratios of Mayor-Controlled Districts, Selected 106 Elementary Grades, 1999–2003 5.4 Results from Linear Regression Models for Elementary 109 Reading and Mathematics Achievement Inequality, 1999–2003 6.1 District Policy Tools under Mayoral Control 120 6.2 Activity Analysis by School 135 6.3 Question Analysis by Assessment and School 137 7.1 Results from Linear Regression Models for Total Revenue 149 per Pupil, 1993–2003 7.2 Marginal Effect of Mayoral Power to Appoint a Majority 150 of the School Board on Financial and Staffing Outcomes 7.3 Results from Linear Regression Models for Per-Pupil 153 Expenditures on General Administration, 1993–2003 7.4 Results from Linear Regression Models for Percent of District 154 Expenditures on General Administration, 1993–2003 8.1 Potential Trade-Offs Given Mayoral Control and the Saliency 166 of Education for City Voters 8.2 Results of Ordered Logit Regression Analysis of Education 183 Content of State of City Speeches 9.1 Questions of Timing and Partnership in Building Political 191 Support for Mayoral Control 9.2 The Range of Mayoral Involvement in Urban Education 194 A.1 Results from Change in Z-Score Regression Models for 204 Standardized Elementary Reading and Mathematics Achievement, 1999–2003 x TABLES ...

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