Ouchi says that Houston and Seattle had impressive results when their school boards and superintendents adopted this approach in the 1990s. The principal of the John Hay Elementary School in Seattle, for instance, controlled only $25,000 of his funds before the change, and $2 million after. The John Hay principal and teachers reorganized the school day, invested in part-time reading and math coaches, and saw math scores go from the 36th to the 62nd percentile and reading scores from the 72nd to the 76th percentile in four years.
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奥奇表示在二十世纪九十年代学校董事会和管理者采用这个方案时，休斯敦和西雅图都发生了很大变化。比如西雅图的约翰-海小学校长在发生这一变化之前仅仅控制两万五千美元资金，而变化发生之后，他控制两百万美元的资金。约翰-海小学的校长和老师重新组织了学校开放日，开办业余时间的阅读和数学辅导，并且四年之内他们的数学成绩从36个百分点上升到62个，阅读成绩从72个百分点上升到76个。