The Little School System That Could

The Little School System That CouldExamines, from four organizational perspectives, Virginia's Manassas Park City School's ten year turnaround. The Little School System That Could is a story about transformation. In 1995, equipped with not much more than a vision of the quality education that urban students deserved, Tom DeBolt, the new superintendent of the Manassas Park School System, set into motion a series of reforms that transformed the district. By 2005 every school was

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