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Splitt, David A. – Updating School Board Policies, 1981
The fictive account of a school board's problems with a new policy illustrates the need to involve all affected groups in the policy-making process. The "Sleepy Hollow Board of Education" early in the school year adopts a policy discontinuing social promotions of academically unqualified students. After a year of pressure and protest…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Board of Education Policy, Citizen Participation, Elementary Secondary Education
