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Elliott, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2008
This article raises the question, "Is the rapid expansion of the school Academies programme consistent with the Government's policy of enabling socially disadvantaged local communities to participate in making decisions that shape the quality of their lives?" (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, School Restructuring
Jimenez, Emmanuel; Sawada, Yasuyuki – 1998
This paper measures the effects on student outcomes of decentralizing educational responsibility to communities and schools. In El Salvador, community-managed schools emerged during the 1980s when public schools could not be extended to rural areas because of the country's civil war. In 1991, El Salvador's Ministry of Education decided to draw on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Community Control, Decentralization