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Eupha Jeanne Daramola – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2024
This comparative case study examines two out-of-system education programs created by Black community organizers during the 2020-2021 school year. Applying a unique framework based on the Black radical imagination, I examine how the communities experienced these programs and the potential of the programs to shape advocacy and local policy reforms.…
Descriptors: Local Issues, Political Issues, Community Programs, Educational Change
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Carter, Michael A. – Clearing House, 1995
Notes four strategies that will almost certainly result in losing a school bond election, then discusses four strategies that increase the probability of passage. (SR)
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Issues
Henderson, David L.; And Others – 1983
A study summarized the voting patterns to form a political profile of Texas teachers. A questionnaire was sent to 500 teachers who were members of the Texas State Teachers Association in 1983. General information was collected on nineteen characteristics of teachers, including such categories as sex, marital status, place of birth, place of…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Issues, Political Issues
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Kastory, Richard C.; Harrington, Susan J. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1996
A poll of 1,933 voters in two counties that passed school bonds and two that did not examines voter perceptions toward school bonds. The factors linked to passage were that the number of students was growing, that most students would benefit, and that the dollar amount of the bond issue was reasonable. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bond Issues, Counties, Educational Finance
Fielder, Donald J. – American School Board Journal, 1995
Describes organizational and planning strategies used to convince voters in the Park City (Utah) School District to approve two bond referendums. Offers 10 suggestions for conducting a successful school-bond campaign. (LMI)
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Change Strategies, Educational Finance, Elections
Danis, Ruth – 1981
Research on schoolboard and city council elections over a 60-year period in Santa Barbara, California, indicates that the community made roughly simultaneous changes in policy direction in both political areas. The study examines the effects of common ideologies or values on electoral issues and candidates as well as the role of elections as…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, City Government, Community Attitudes, Community Change
Cutler, William W., III – 1994
This paper describes the role of gender in the politics of American education, as carried out in Philadelphia and its suburbs from 1905 to 1930. It discusses volunteerism as a way of life for middle-class American women in the 19th century, particularly within the realm of education. Women were able to act as advocates of school reform through…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
American Education Coalition, Washington, DC. – 1984
This document presents a step-by-step strategy, in a question-and-answer format, for mounting a successful political campaign for school board. Part one, the introduction, provides advice on how to acquire the necessary background knowledge of a school district and suggests possible campaign themes such as "parents' rights" or "back to basics."…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Conservatism, Elections
Caballero, Diana – Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos Bulletin, 1989
The involvement of parents in the community school board elections in New York City in May 1989 was to be closely watched. Puerto Rican and other minority parents must seize the opportunity provided by the elections as a first step toward determining the educational agenda for their children. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Boards of Education, Decentralization, Educational Policy
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Hughes, Mary – Gender and Education, 1992
Using a feminist perspective, this paper attempts to quantify the position of women in educational policymaking in Britain in this century at national and local levels. Women have been in the minority and have not generally been a "shrieking sisterhood," guided primarily by feminist principles. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational History, Educational Policy
Feuerstein, Abe – 1996
Public schools in America are often at the center of controversy over conflicting values and interests. This paper explores three areas of conflict that surfaced in a Virginia community as it shifted from an appointed to an elected school board. The first section explores the three areas of conflict: (1) conflict over what is taught in school; (2)…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Conflict, Conservatism
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Jones, J. William – 1977
This book is about successful bond issues and levy campaigns. While no one campaign blueprint works everywhere, there are certain definite components to almost every successful school finance election. These components are the product of a carefully planned political process. Successful campaigns are based on some givens that must be in evidence…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bond Issues, Budgets, Citizen Participation
National Council of Churches of Christ, New York, NY. – 1982
This guide for discussing underlying issues in public elementary and secondary education was prepared for the purpose of encouraging and enabling conversation and action within and among local churches, and deals with the following six issues: (1) Whose understanding of education gives direction to educational activity? Whose goals prevail? (2)…
Descriptors: Christianity, Church Responsibility, Church Role, Churches