Reconnection to Learning, better known as the Bundy Report, was a proposal to decentralize New York City schools in the late 1960s.
In the late 1960s Black Power movement, New York City activists advocated for "community control" of their schools, in which local schools would be governed by boards consisting of parents and community activists rather than by the centralized Department of Education.
In particular, the African-American Teachers Association (ATA) advocated for community control of underperforming schools in black neighborhoods, such as Harlem and Ocean Hill-Brownsville (Brooklyn).
In response to this activism, the New York State legislature commissioned the Ford Foundation to recommend a partnership between parents and educators.
[2] It proposed school decentralization, which would give local leaders decision-making control over curriculum.