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Analysis of Local Stakeholder Opposition to School District Consolidation: An Application of Interpretive Theory to Public Policy Making.
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Ward, James G.; Rink, Francis J. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1992
In 1985, Illinois adopted state legislation supporting school district mergers. In one rural district studied, local opposition to consolidation was based on self-interest, ideologies of localism and traditionalism, and (to a lesser extent) research information. Implications for policymakers and the complexity of the "local control"…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Attitudes, Community Control, Consolidated Schools
Moving Mountains: Reform, Resistance, and Resiliency in an Appalachian Kentucky High School. National Rural Education Association 1996 Dissertation of the Year Award.
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Porter, Maureen K. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
A year-long ethnographic investigation examined how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform while resisting state priorities and policies mandated in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Contrasts KERA objectives with cultural themes prominent in this poor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change