School board decisions should reflect the needs of the public. Questionnaires, home visits and discussions help to achieve these ends. (AF)

Author is concerned with the transference of power via community control of schools. (CB)

Analysis of New York's school decentralization law indicates that in the areas of curriculum, budget, personnel, and collective bargaining, central policies and administrative action have frustrated effective local controls. (Author/JF)

Article presented a number of responses to a survey of wherein rests the responsibility for governing schools in America. (RK)

Teacher Militancy Dialogue from the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

The issue of community control concerns the future role of parents in a changing school environment. It is vital that parental involvement be channeled toward positive and realistic goals such as defining the needs of children and determining how to meet these needs. To give parents access to decisionmakers, school boards should consider holding…

From the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

Summarizes the organizational process and political bargaining models of policy change, and considers the rational decision-making model as an alternative. Models are interrelated with each other to show how each reveals a dimension of the politics of school decentralization. (Author/AM)

Responses from inquiries to the superintendents of 32 urban school systems across the country provided the basis for classifying and evaluating modes of decentralization and extent of community control. Main features of the school systems' operations are reported under nine categories: (1) decentralized decision making with centralized…