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Download full textMcBeath, Gerald A.; And Others – 1984
A 3-year study of decentralization of Alaska schools identified several factors that influenced whether a school was locally controlled and found patterns of control associated in important ways with staff and community attitudes toward school. Information was gathered by surveys and interviews conducted in 28 communities randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Boards of Education
Getches, David H. – 1977
Education for rural Alaska Natives has come along a lengthy and tortuous path. Today the much criticized tripartite system remains in which the Federal, state and local governments deliver educational services. A new state law, S.B. 35, which attempts to decentralize control, raises some serious legal problems because of its inconsistency with…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Community Control, Court Litigation
McBeath, Gerald A.; And Others – 1983
Beginning in 1981, a 3-year study examined implementation of decentralization in rural Alaska education; legislated decentralization had begun in 1975 largely in response to the Native self-determination movement. All rural local school administrators were initially surveyed. Based on their responses and other statewide data, four types of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Boards of Education
