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Download full textDemas, Boulton H. – 1971
When local school board members in New York City assumed office on 31 local school boards in 1969, this should have resulted in more responsive local boards with sufficient power to control local policy; but this was not the actual result. Specific examination of the decentralization bill, the politics of the election, and the election procedures…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Control, Community Involvement, Community Problems
Peer reviewedDoyle, Denis; Finn, Chester, Jr. – Journal of Educational Public Relations, 1984
Argues that local school districts in California have been rendered essentially obsolete by state funding and control due to the combined effects of the "Serrano" decision (requiring statewide school expenditure equalization) and Proposition 13. One board president and two superintendents take issue with this judgment. (TE)
Descriptors: Community Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Government Role
Weinman, Janice Jennie – 1970
Underlying present Governmental and private objectives to institute local control over the schools on Indian reservations is the hope that such a policy will improve American Indians' sense of relevance of their own behavior to the outcome of their destiny. Although the connection between community control and sense of personal efficacy has never…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Attitudes
Kirst, Michael W. – 1976
Local control is emphasized in this examination of the roles of state, federal, and local governments in education policy and change. Federal and state role priorities should be to provide resources and stimulation for the major decisions and changes at the school site. The role of the state in school district governance, which has steadily been…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Community Control, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Everhart, Robert B., Ed. – 1982
The following 14 essays consider relationships among schooling, education, and the state; alternatives to existing systems; and educating minorities and the disadvantaged: (1) "Growing Up Blighted: Reflections on the 'Secret Power' in the American Experience" (C. Burgess); (2) "The Evolving Political Structure of American…
Descriptors: Community Control, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Kennedy, Kerry J. – 1984
This paper reports the results of a study of the implementation of multicultural education policy initiatives in Australia. An outline of the study's methods follows brief discussions of the emergence of multicultural education as a policy issue and the context of multicultural education in Australia. To assess the impact of multicultural…
Descriptors: Community Control, Cultural Context, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Israel, William I., Ed. – 1978
Collected in this volume are the papers presented at the 1978 Chief State School Officers Summer Institute. The program was devoted to political issues in education and focused on a number of current educational problems. Political issues were discussed in relation to a number of areas, including federal education priorities, federal-state…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Career Education
