Cities are in a new cycle of changing who runs schools. Are they just running in place?

November 24, 2025

Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat

The election of a progressive mayor who has said he wants to end mayoral control of New York City schools might seem like a bellwether.

The next largest school systems, Los Angeles and Miami-Dade County, have been run by elected boards for years. Chicago is transitioning to a fully elected board after decades under mayoral control.

But don’t bury mayoral control just yet.

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Erica Meltzer is National Editor at Chalkbeat, where she covers education policy and politics. Erica was a founding editor of the local news site Denverite. Before that, she covered everything from housing and energy policy to crime and courts for newspapers in three states. She served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay.

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