Illustrates efforts to increase student achievement through data-driven decision making in a large urban public school district. Demonstrates the challenges and results associated with how the district uses data at the central office to measure districtwide performance toward strategic goals and at the school building level to tailor instructional strategies based on a diagnosis of student needs.

Supplements the (A) case.

San Diego City Schools embarked on an ambitious, districtwide reform effort to improve student achievement in 1998. Examines the role of resource reallocation in supporting the district's reform strategy, highlighting how resource allocation choices and processes affect organizational coherence and strategy execution. In the fall of 2003, the district leadership contemplates making substantial changes to its resource allocation system in response to a serious budget crisis and mounting internal and external pressures for change.

Supplements the (A) case.

Focuses on continuing efforts to implement school district reforms as well as the challenges of succession and managing organizational change in tough economic times.