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Barney (Don) & Associates, Portland, OR. – 1983
This report summarizes the findings of four technical studies on public education finance in Oregon. After describing the intent and scope of each of the studies, the report sketches the general conclusions reached on the structure of the public educational system in Oregon, the state's General Fund, and the financing of each sector of Oregon…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Needs
Mullin, David D.; Musella, Donald F. – 1984
This study undertook to discover why educational consultancy has not been more successful in implementing new educational programs and practices. It sought to identify differences in perceptions of superintendents, principals, consultants, and teachers with regard to teachers' need for consultant services and the factors, organizational and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Consultants, Consultation Programs, Educational Innovation
DeFlaminis, John A. – 1983
A description is given of the structure and operation of 29 intermediate administrative units which provide consulting, advisory, administrative, or statistical services to local school districts in Pennsylvania. The basic services rendered by the units are in the areas of: (1) curriculum development and instructional improvement; (2) management;…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities Improvement, Improvement Programs
Fussell, Robert – 1973
The Oregon Pilot Retrieval Dissemination Project was one of three state experimental programs conducted in mainly rural areas. The primary objective was to develop a dissemination network, test its effectiveness, and recommend a model for implementation in other states. It was designed to serve teachers and administrators who need access to…
Descriptors: Administrators, Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Elementary School Teachers
Download full textYin, Robert K.; And Others – 1981
As part of their study of interorganizational collaboration, researchers present three detailed case studies of how regional education agencies (REAs) supply knowledge utilization services to the school districts they serve. The three REAs are the Wayne County (Michigan) Intermediate School District (with 36 districts), the Educational Improvement…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Credibility, Elementary Secondary Education
McGovern, E. Gaye – 1975
This school district guide examines the why of long-range planning, the relationship between long-range planning and educational change, the long-range planning process, community involvement in planning, the communicating of educational quality assessment and other needs assessment results with the public, needs assessment, prioritizing district…
Descriptors: Administrators, Community Involvement, Community Relations, Curriculum Development
Grotsky, Jeffery N.; And Others – 1973
The Peer Evaluation Program (PEP) has been instituted by the Division of Special Education, Pennsylvania State Department of Education, to allow intermediate units an opportunity to continuously improve their programs. The advantages of the PEP system are: (1) it is a self-improvememt system of program development; (2) PEP allows local autonomy as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of School Planning. – 1976
The first portion of this document consists of maps and graphs that display important information on population, income, resources, and education in North Carolina. They have been constructed to illustrate the present situation from county to county and from school administrative unit to school administrative unit across the state. The second half…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attendance Patterns, Demography, Educational Finance
Mazzoni, Tim L.; Mueller, Van D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
Emphasizes the development of an effective planning capability in the state. Describes the policy challenges posed by enrollment decline, then analyzes the content and process of Minnesota's response, focusing on legislative enactments aimed at improving school district planning. (IRT)
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Intermediate Administrative Units
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
Stephens, E. Robert; Turner, Walter G. – 1991
State-endorsed education service agency (ESA) type organizations are found in 26 state school systems, 23 of which have a complete statewide network serving all local districts. These organizations promote collaboration among local school districts in substate regions or serve as a conduit for implementation of state initiatives. This report…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society)
Cunningham, Luvern L.; Hentges, Joseph T. – 1982
A survey of school district superintendents sought to gather data on a number of characteristics and compare the data with earlier surveys. From a random sample of 2,342 superintendents, stratified by district size, the researchers received 1,339 responses. The variables covered included superintendent age, sex, ethnic group, political…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Comparative Analysis
Olivera, Carlos E. – 1984
In Latin American education systems the inspectorate is an administrative level linking the central national educational administration to the local operations level. Traditionally the inspector's function has been to enforce fulfillment of pedagogical and administrative norms at the local level and to transmit pertinent information on achievement…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Change Agents
Yin, Robert K.; Gwaltney, Margaret K. – 1981
Three case studies of interorganizational collaboration between regional education agencies (REAs) and school districts illustrate how successful knowledge utilization occurs. Researchers studied how knowledge utilization services in four areas--staff development, linking agent assistance, information retrieval, and broad organizational…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Kloster, Alexander J. – 1978
Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) provide services to and draw strength from the larger environment of which they are a part. This study examines the functions and responsibilities of ISDs with the purpose of creating a more effective network linking state agencies with local school districts. It is divided into five sections: identification of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Ancillary Services, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
