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Holleman, I. Thomas, Jr. – 1975
Acceptance or rejection of school policy hinges on the role played by formal and informal groups within the community power structure. Kimbrough's research suggests that formal groups are subordinate to the informal power structure in establishing policy, though formal groups make important contributions to decision-making. Some researchers…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Leaders, Community Organizations, Conceptual Schemes
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Johnston, Gladys Styles; Yeakey, Carol Camp – Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector, 1979
Sheds light on a growing conflict that has surfaced between urban communities and teachers' unions: the conflict over the sharing of power in school decision making. Discusses the actions of the Philadelphia Parents Union. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decision Making
Long, David C.; And Others – 1977
Faced with a legal mandate to equalize educational resources available to its public elementary schools, can the Board of Education of the District of Columbia respond effectively to the public pressure for decentralization of its decision-making systems? The answer may be determined through the responses to two further questions: to what extent…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Community Control
Thornell, Allen L. – 1981
A questionnaire survey of 180 Texas school district superintendents sought to determine both their perceptions of how community power structures influenced school board decisions and their techniques for communicating with their local power structure. The study analyzed four power structure types--monopolistic, multigroup noncompetitive,…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Community Control, Community Influence
Allen, Charlie Joe – 1986
Using techniques of the reputational method to study community power structure, this report identifies components of power structure in a Tennessee school district, demonstrates that proven methodologies can facilitate educational leaders' reform efforts, and serves as a pilot study for further investigation. Researchers investigated the district…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Leaders, Community Study, Decision Making
Harris, J. John, III; Ogle, Terry – 1977
The paper presents a detailed overview of educational policymaking and discusses the need for minority groups to be involved in policy formation. The first section describes the distinguishing characteristics of the main elements of the functions of administration and policymaking process. The second section examines the following three models of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes, Community Control