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State vs. Local Control of Schools. ERIC Digest Series Number 24.
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Hadderman, Margaret L. – 1988
Local school districts have gradually lost policy-making discretion to state legislatures and bureaucracies. State-mandated reforms of school finance and academic standards (especially those involving curricular alignment with standardized tests) tend to diminish teacher autonomy and creativity, disrupt school climate, and ignore individual school…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Central Office Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, School District Autonomy