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Nyquist, Ewald B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
A careful description of the intermediate or regional district developed in New York State under which member districts select the services in which they wish to participate, all districts share the administrative costs, the State shares some of the cost, and the chief executive is both a BOCES board member and a State official. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Intermediate Administrative Units, Metropolitan Areas, Regional Programs
Download full textEgner, J. R.; And Others – 1970
In an effort to determine what constitutes a workable educational region, demographic, economic, social, political, and educational data from eight New York supervisory districts were collected and analyzed. Each district included a board of cooperative educational services (BOCES). This document reports the results of these eight case studies…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Case Studies, Educational Innovation, Intermediate Administrative Units
Volp, Frederick D.; Greenfield, William D. – 1978
The purpose of the research on which this paper is based is to develop fundamental understanding of the problem-solving behavior of school superintendents, given the political character of their work environment. Data drawn from interviews with a school superintendent and a long-standing consultant to school boards are relied on as the basis for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Governance, Intermediate Administrative Units, Political Influences
Peer reviewedDavidson, Philip W.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1984
A model program in Western New York State for infants and preschoolers with or at risk for handicap ties together the health care and educational-habilitative systems to facilitate a continuity of comprehensive service provision from birth through school age, increases the community effort regarding identification, and links indentification with…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
PDF pending restorationNew York State Education Dept., Albany. Information Center on Education. – 1978
This report presents data on enrollment, staff, and schools for all public school districts and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in New York State. The data summaries were obtained from the annual survey of school districts conducted by the Information Center on Education in the fall of 1977. General data are presented for…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Intermediate Administrative Units, Nonprofessional Personnel, Paraprofessional Personnel
Bouchard, Rene L. – Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Opinion about Educational Service Agencies, 2003
Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) provide cost-effective shared services to New York's rural districts. Services in career and technical education and staff development offered by the Steuben-Allegany BOCES are described. Future plans include increased cooperation with colleges in providing adult education, evolution of the…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Intermediate Administrative Units, Program Descriptions, Rural Schools
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1968
Basic needs of children and youth which cannot be provided by small rural schools could be realized by combining the resources and pupils of a number of local districts. Four types of organization are presented as possibilities for providing cooperative educational services: (1) autonomous districts with line functions; (2) semi-autonomous…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agencies, Classification, Cooperative Planning
New York State Office of Education Performance Review, Albany. – 1973
The creation of Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) was authorized in 1948 to function temporarily pending the creation of intermediate school districts. BOCES were viewed at their inception as a means to supplement teaching services and to provide a few nonacademic courses to school districts too small to provide their own. In…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Intermediate Administrative Units, Organization, Program Administration
Soucy, Leo A. – 1973
This paper describes the historical background of New York State's system of education and then considers developments leading to the present system. The present system involves three levels of educational governance within a 2-level governance system. Activities at each of the three levels--local, intermediate, and State--are described in detail,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Conferences, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools
Lavin, Richard J.; Sanders, Jean E. – 1974
This volume of the study discusses different examples of educational cooperation and includes descriptions of several specific forms of interagency cooperation that have been developed in different States. Special attention is devoted to models of educational networks, including information networks in California, Texas, and Massachusetts and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Bibliographies, Coordination, Decentralization
Hageny, William J. – 1976
In simple and readily available form, this handbook provides boards of education with the laws and regulations governing central school districts, union free schools, and city schools. It should save both time and unnecessary mistakes and give the board an understanding of the legal framework on which the school rests so that the board can proceed…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bibliographies, Boards of Education, Curriculum
Direct linkGalvin, Patrick F. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1995
Uses data from New York State's Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) to examine the interaction of rural school district size and wealth factors with BOCES size and wealth as they relate to expenditure levels for service provision. Findings suggest that opportunities available to districts through regional educational service agencies…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Resources
LOVELESS, JOHN E. – 1967
THE INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT, ESTABLISHED BY LAW IN NEW YORK STATE IN 1948, IS A COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL VENTURE PROVIDING SMALL RURAL SCHOOLS WITH SERVICES WHICH ARE NOT USUALLY POSSIBLE, DUE TO THE SIZE AND ISOLATION OF THESE SCHOOL DISTRICTS. SEVERAL OF THESE INTERMEDIATE DISTRICTS, LABELED BOCES (BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES), HAVE…
Descriptors: Administration, Ancillary School Services, Cooperating Teachers, Data Processing
Adams, Charles F.; And Others – 1980
IMPACT is a computer-based information system designed to help school districts share materials and expertise and to implement state-mandated evaluation of student achievement. It is designed to meet local, regional, and state evaluation and reporting requirements. Based upon the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to instruction, it consists of: (1)…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum, Databases
Swanson, Austin D.; And Others – 1978
This study is a component of the New York State School Finance Law Study Project conducted by the New York State Education Department (SED). The tasks addressed are in the areas of district reorganization, supplying regional educational services, and the impact of existing Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) aid on local districts.…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Correlation, Decision Making, Delivery Systems
