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Commission for Positive Change in the Oakland Public Schools, CA. – 1990
This agenda for educational improvement in Oakland (California) outlines community expectations of the school system and gives specific examples of what those expectations mean in practice. More than 800 individuals from neighborhood groups, churches, parent organizations, school district staff, and business and professional associations testified…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Surveys, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Weninger, Terence A. – 1988
This historiographical case study of the Scottsdale School District in Arizona examined the degree to which school governance was democratic and tested the proposition that policy change at the district level occurs in response to community demands as evidenced by policymakers' Chapter 2 addresses three categories of administrative discipline…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Change Agents
Bilow, Scott – 1986
The results of centralization of one of the larger "small-rural" school districts in New York State are examined in this case study. The demographics of Yorkville and the feelings and opinions that residents have about their communities and schools are discussed first. Next, the history of the school system since 1950, when the district…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Change Strategies, Community Attitudes