Case Study
Boston Public Schools (MA): Growing Leadership, Improving Quality, and Reducing Costs
CASE STUDY Boston Public Schools (MA): Growing Leadership, Improving Quality, and Reducing Costs by Nicholas P. Morgan Originally published in District Management Journal, v.5, Fall 2010 One of the most powerful things was the peer group as it developed... they started to reach out across boundaries in a pretty siloed system, and realized they could help each other.” COPYRIGHT © 2010 DISTRICT MANAGEMENT GROUP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 1 The District Management Council | www.dmcouncil.org DMC CASE STUDY D uring his decade in the district, Horgan had often worried about the safety of data at the district’s schools. There had never been a system for safely backing up or providing security for the system’s servers. Recently, after a failed attempt to recover a crashed server, Horga