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La Noue, George R.; Smith, Bruce L. R. – 1973
This study sought to provide an empirical base for a theoretical and public policy analysis of the decentralization movement in urban education. This research includes an analysis of a large number of cities for which comparative demographic and political data could be found or developed as well as a manageable number of case studies.…
Descriptors: Community Control, Decentralization, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Woodward, Kate S. – 1986
The history of school district consolidation in New York State reveals that nearly every set of recommendations which has encouraged consolidation has brought about widespread negative reaction from the public. Reorganization is a highly political activity in which members of the State Legislature and the State Education Department have always…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Consolidated Schools, Dissent
