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Download full textRebekah Skelton – Texas Education Review, 2025
When the state of Texas took control of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in the summer of 2023, it marked the end of a multi-year legal battle between the district and the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the beginning of a community-led campaign to re-take control of the district. Since, students and community groups have rallied to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, School District Autonomy
Direct linkPang, I-Wah – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2008
This paper examined the debate on a reform of school-based management in Hong Kong, which was to set up the Incorporated Management Committee (IMC) to manage the subsidized school. The nature of the debate during legislation and the characteristics of the reform were examined. The advantages, disadvantages and the implications of the reform were…
Descriptors: Community Control, School Based Management, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Hess, Frederick M. – American School Board Journal, 2003
Elected school boards' skeptical eyes can guard against bad management practices and ensure that different voices get heard. Problems with board governance are a product of too little democracy. A democratic reform strategy would make board elections partisan, hold them on the same day as elections for more prominent state or national offices,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Effectiveness, Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education
Zeigler, Harmon – 1974
Even though public school districts are structured with the expectation of responsive governance, most school boards are not particularly responsive to their constituents. School boards from politically contentious districts tend to be more responsive, but they have even less success challenging the dominance of the superintendent than do less…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Community Control, Democratic Values
Cheng, Charles W. – 1976
The major focus of this study is on altering the current structure of collective bargaining in public education to provide for adequate community participation. Concentrating on big city school systems where minorities and the poor have historically been apart from the educational policy-making process, the study finds that the scope of bargaining…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Citizen Participation, Collective Bargaining, Community Control
Moyle, Colin – 1989
A historical overview and analysis of the decentralization process in Victoria, Australia, is the purpose of this paper. The case study illustrates the impact of conflict between political and administrative agendas on attempts to implement the government-initiated policy decision. The current two-tiered system is composed of central and local…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Case Studies, Community Control, Community Involvement
