The word “accountability” is used frequently but vaguely by the advocates of community control. One searches the literature and the conversations in vain to learn what accounts are to be rendered and two whom, or how a community will know that its own administrators are doing a better job. So far, only limited attention had been paid to specific performance measures and that only whit the view to dramatizing how bad the situation is. In the District of Columbia, for example, Julius W. Hobson induced the school system to publish reading scores by school in an effort to prove to the community that ghetto schools were not teaching children to read.