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Hess, Frederick M.; Meeks, Olivia – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2010
For more than a century, school boards have endeavored to govern America's schools and school systems. Collectively, the nation's nearly 14,000 school boards are responsible for the well-being of 52 million children, the expenditure of $600 billion per year, and the supervision of six million employees. Despite the magnitude of this…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Governance, Accountability, Academic Achievement
Johnson, Jean; Arumi, Ana Maria; Ott, Amber – Public Agenda, 2006
This is the fourth in a series of reports from Reality Check 2006, an ongoing set of tracking surveys on education issues. Reality Check surveys attitudes among public school parents, students, teachers, principals and superintendents on a regular basis. In surveys on education, it is not uncommon for the public, parents and teachers to see…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Superintendents, Public Education, Public Schools