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Peer reviewedLutz, Frank W.; Lynch, Patrick D. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1973
This research replicated earlier research done in nonpartisan school district elections, concerning the effect of school board member incumbent defeat on nonvoluntary superintendent turnover. (Author)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Educational Research, Elections
Lutz, Frank W.; Hunt, Brook P. – 1981
Researchers attempted to predict the defeat of school board incumbents, using variables which had already been shown to account for incumbent defeat in statistical analyses performed after board elections in many different states. A global model was constructed based on 20 social, economic, and political variables as well as on school districts'…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Lutz, Frank W.; Wang, Lee-Yen – 1985
Using data collected in 95 Ohio school districts by Brock Hunt, this study reanalyzed those data, examined the reasons for Hunt's inability to predict a school board member incumbent's defeat, and developed a model that would have predicted those Ohio school board elections. Hunt attempted to develop a statistical model of socioeconomic-political…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Attitudes, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textLutz, Frank W. – 1976
This paper describes the relationship among statistical research, ethnographic research, and practice, all of which combine to generate an explanatory model of school board incumbent defeat and superintendent turnover. The research process that incorporates these variables involves (1) careful ethnographic descriptions of important educational…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Lutz, Frank W.; Wang, Lee-Yen – 1988
Data on 70 independent school districts within the East Texas School Study Council were studied to develop a model, based on dissatisfaction theory, that would predict a target election of a school board member. It was hypothesized that: (1) standard variables from the dissatisfaction theory would account for a significant amount of the variance…
Descriptors: Board Candidates, Boards of Education, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLutz, Frank W.; Garberina, William L. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1977
Examines a series of hypotheses related to the "gap" between what a community desires of its schools and the school board's response to those desires. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Board Candidates, Boards of Education, Community Involvement, Elections
Peer reviewedLutz, Frank W.; Wang, Lee-Yen – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1987
This study reanalyzes data collected in 1977 from 95 Ohio school districts and develops a theory of dissatisfaction that may accurately predict school board elections. According to the theory, only when people are dissatisfied enough will they become politically active. Seven tables and 16 references are included. (WTH)
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Boards of Education, Educational Research, Elections
